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glore

/ɡlˈɔɹ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English

Syllables
glo-re
IPA
/ɡlˈɔɹ/
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To gaze intently, stare.

Archaic

verb

To stare rudely or gloomily, glower, glare.

Archaic

verb

To glow, shine.

verb

To squint.

noun

A stare, fixed gaze.

noun

A glow.

noun

Alternative form of glor (“fat”).

Uncountable

adj

Alternative form of glor (“fat, fatty”).

Etymology

From Middle English gloren, (compare Middle English glaren (“to glare, stare, shine”)), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English *glārian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn (“to shine”). Compare Scots glore (“to stare”), West Frisian gloarje, Dutch gloren, German Low German gloren (“to glimmer; flicker”), Swedish glora, Norwegian Bokmål glore, Norwegian Nynorsk glora. Related to glare.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: gloren, *glārian, *glāʀōn

Usage

Inflected Forms

glores (present, singular) gloring (participle, present) glored (participle, past) glored (past) glores (plural) more glore (comparative) most glore (superlative)

Derived Forms

glory

Homonyms

glor

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce glore?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɡlˈɔɹ/.
What does glore mean?
To gaze intently, stare.
Where does glore come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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