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hoar

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4 lettersPronunciation /hɔː/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted ahorStarts with HEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

Word origin

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

Used in a sentence

  • His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
  • old trees with trunks all hoar
  • Bright fell the moonlight on pillar and court and shattered wall, hiding all their rents and imperfections in its silver garment, and clothing their hoar majesty with the peculiar glory of the night.

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