Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dord

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dord
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of ancient Irish war-horn.

Example Sentences

"[…] there, after digging to a good depth, they find the Dord or great war-horn of Fionn, a blast on which brings “a flock of furious gigantic birds,” and a thigh of one of them is found to be as big as a sheep’s."
"[…] the first album on which the dord and the didgeridoo could be heard together was entitled: ‘Two stories in One: (Natural Symphonies)’."
"The dord, a form of horn with a sound like the Australian Aborigine’s didgeridoo, was clearly a sacred instrument of the Bronze Age […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish dord (“buzz, drone; dord”).

Inflected Forms

dords (plural)

Questions

What does dord mean?: A type of ancient Irish war-horn.
Where does dord come from?: Borrowed from Irish dord (“buzz, drone; dord”).

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