orc
/ɔɹk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
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noun
Acronym of odd radio circle, a very large unexplained astronomical object.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The latter phenomenon is similar to the conceptual division seen in Ainu society between kimun-kamuy, the bear spirit of the mountains, and repun-kamuy, the orc or dolphin spirit of the sea."
- "Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus."
- "The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas)."
- "There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head."
- "Ukrainians themselves, including those on the right, preferred to call the events the 'Revolution of Dignity', depicted not in terms of ethnicity or class, but in simple civic black and white – a revolution of the people against Yanukovych's 'Mordor' and his 'Orcs'."
- "And now we must watch the old world go up in flames, in the mad spectacle of Putin’s orcs descending upon Kyiv to execute his macabre plan."
Etymology
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɔɹk/
- British English: /ɔːk/