shore
/ʃɔɹ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "lake shore; bay shore; gulf shore; island shore; mainland shore; river shore; estuary shore; pond shore; sandy shore; rocky shore"
- "the fruitful shore of muddy Nile"
- "Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[…]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us."
- "Floods in the middle Yangtse were frequent in the past. The Yangtse carries less silt than the Yellow River. But under the old regimes, the Chingkiang section (the section of the middle Yangtse between Chihchiang County in Hupeh Province and Chenglingchi in Hunan Province), the shores of the Tungting Lake and the lower reaches of the Han Shui were frequently flooded, causing great damage to the vast plain of Hupeh and Hunan."
- "The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships."
- "The passengers signed up for shore tours."
Etymology
From Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear. Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: schore, *sċora, *skurô, shore, schōre, shoren
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʃɔɹ/
- British English: /ʃɔː/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.
Inflected Forms
shores (plural)
shores (present, singular)
shoring (participle, present)
shored (participle, past)
shored (past)
more shore (comparative)
most shore (superlative)