Meaning

1 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of fervor.

More definitions
  • feelings of great warmth and intensity
  • the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

Examples

3 sentences

  1. My husband loves the fervour of the city.

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  2. The fervour of his imagination melts down and renders malleable, as in a furnace, the most contradictory materials.

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  3. Thanks to Haruna's "weather mode" Kaori's fervour was greatly dampened.

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Origin

By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -our (“abstract noun suffix”).

By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -our (“abstract noun suffix”).

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Forms

plural: fervours
Singularfervour
Pluralfervours

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedfervourless

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fertilizerferventferventlyfervorfessfest

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