morse
/mɔːs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A surname transferred from the given name, variant of Morris, from the given name Maurice.
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A town in Saskatchewan, Canada, named after inventor Samuel Morse.
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A rural municipality in southern Saskatchewan, which includes the town; in full, the Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165.
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Example Sentences
- "We sent a message in Morse."
- "It was Gibson who was right. Code 78A was Morsed back to Grantham – 'bomb despatched and hit wall but no breach observed'. No doubt the wording of Operation Chastise's operation order now started to hit home […]"
- "The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work."
- "The morse is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...]"
- "Then we passed through a great deale of small ice, and sawe, upon some peices, two morses, and upon some, one; and also diuers seales, layeing upon peices of ice."
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Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /mɔːs/