moor
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but…An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
» Were you in the moor yesterday?
Meaning
2 sensesAn extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
Hochmoor
ве́ресковая пу́стошьvéreskovaja pústošʹ, пу́стошьpústošʹ
A game preserve consisting of moorland.
охо́тничье уго́дьеoxótničʹje ugódʹje, уча́сток для охо́тыučástok dlja oxóty
- open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
- one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century
Examples
32 sentencesWere you in the moor yesterday?
The moor was covered with heather.
ruБолото было покрыто вереском. — fjay69
The moor is very sparsely inhabited.
Rodrigo began trekking across the moors.
A ship is moored at the pier.
ruКорабль пришвартован у причала. — odexed
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-GFrom Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.
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Forms
plural: moorsSynonyms
1 synonyms- open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss:moorland