Noun: hoar
Sample Sentences
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His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. [1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, 10th edition, London: For J. Owen, and F. and C. Rivington, page 52:]
Nouns inflected like hoar
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
hor'.
Verbs referencing "hoar"
German Nouns
Herr, Finnish Nouns
herra, Icelandic Nouns
herra, Old Norse Nouns
herra, Danish Nouns
herre, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
herre, Swedish Nouns
herre, Old English Nouns
hearra.