ord
/ˈɔːd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Abbreviation of order.
noun
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- ""[...] But such is life — hard upon hard from ord to end; and if I had not been made of the best of neat-leather, the longer in water the tougher, I would have melted away with my tears long ago!""
- "[...] Tell me wholly as it was From ord to end how it did pass When first your father was of me ware."
- "When a man came from Sutherland into Caithness over the Ord [of Caithness, in the southern tip of the county], he was called an ord-louper ."
- "Saul drew his sword, And ran even upon the ord. — Cursor Mundi."
- "And touched him with the spear's ord. — Romance of Sir Otuel."
- "Hadubraht, the son of Hiltibrant, said, "Gladly gifts should be received; ord (spear's point) against ord."
Etymology
From Middle English ord (“point, point of a weapon, beginning”), from Old English ord (“point, spear-point, spear, source, beginning, front, vanguard”), from Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), of obscure origin (see *uzdaz). Cognate with North Frisian od (“tip, place, beginning”), Dutch oord (“place, region”), German Ort (“location, place, position”), Danish od (“a point”), Swedish udd (“a point, prick”), Icelandic oddur (“tip, point of a weapon, leader”). See also odd.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ord, *oʀd, *uzdaz, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɔːd/
- British English: /ˈɔːd/