stour
/ˈstɔɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome."
- "Then there began a passyng harde stoure, for the Romaynes ever wexed ever bygger."
- "This pair, who past have many a dreadful stour, / And proffer now to prove this venture stout, / Alone to this attempt let them go forth, / Alone than thousands of more price and worth."
- ""Travel shall I and woo; Plight me shall I a flower; Try shall I my sword so good, To my weal or my woe in the stour.""
- "Then gan she waile and weepe, to see that woefull stowre."
- "The Stour is at its lowest ebb, and the sheen of the flats makes it difficult to tell where ground ends and water begins, out in the bay."
Etymology
From Middle English store, stoor, stour (“tall, powerful”), from Old English stōr (“tall, great, mighty, strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz, *stōrijaz (“great, big, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-r-, *stō-r- (“steadfast, firm; standing tall; big, bulky”). Cognates Akin to Scots stour (“tall, large, great, stout”), Saterland Frisian stor (“great, many”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian stor (“large, great”), Icelandic stórr (“large, tall”), Polish stary (“old, ancient”), Albanian stër- (“big, huge”). Compare also stoor, steer, stately.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɔɹ/
- British English: /ˈstɔː/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more stour (comparative)
most stour (superlative)
stoor (alternative)
stoore (alternative)
stoure (alternative)
stowr (alternative)
stuir (alternative)
stur (alternative)
sture (alternative)
sturry (alternative)
stours (plural)
stours (present, singular)