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- Dictionarymoor/mʊə/
noun
- 1. a tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather: British "a little town in the moors"
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The meaning of MOOR is an expanse of open rolling infertile land. How to use moor in a sentence.
MOOR definition: 1. an open area of hills covered with rough grass, especially in Britain: 2. to tie a boat so that…. Learn more.
MOOR meaning: 1. an open area of hills covered with rough grass, especially in Britain: 2. to tie a boat so that…. Learn more.
A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. [ mainly British ] Colliford is higher, right up on the moors.
noun. /mɔː (r)/, /mʊə (r)/ /mʊr/ (especially British English) [countable, usually plural] a high open area of land that is not used for farming, especially an area covered with rough grass and heather. the North York moors. We went for a walk on the moors. Extra Examples. Topics Geography c2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
Open uncultivated ground; an extensive tract of waste land; a wilderness; now chiefly applied to a bare, more or less flat, tract of land…. moor Old English–. A piece of unenclosed waste ground; (now usually, esp. in British usage) uncultivated ground covered with heather; a heath. Also: a tract of ground….
To moor is to tie up a ship, as in to moor the ocean liner to the docks. Or, if you're reading Victorian literature, a moor could be a mossy meet-up spot. This word of many hats can also be a noun — a moor is mossy land covered in bushes and grass.
Moor. (mo͝or) n. 1. A member of a traditionally Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab ancestry, now living chiefly in northwest Africa. 2. One of the Muslims who invaded Spain in the 8th century and established a civilization in Andalusia that lasted until the late 15th century.
MOOR definition: an open area in the countryside that is covered with rough grass and bushes: . Learn more.
A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. [mainly British] [...] 2. If you moor a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away. [...] 3.
