Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

windore

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: win-dore
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete form of window.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Not as the ancient heroes did, / Who, that their base births might be hid, / Knowing they were of doubtful gender, / And that they came in at a windore, / Made Jupiter himself, and others / O' th' gods, gallants to their own mothers"

Etymology

A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

windores (plural)

Questions

What does windore mean?: Obsolete form of window.
Where does windore come from?: A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door.

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