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or

See also: Variations of "or"

or - Translingual

Symbol

or

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Oriya.

or - English

Pronunciation

  • (unstressed)
    • (US) IPA: /ɚ/
    • (UK) IPA: /ə/, (before vowel) /əɹ/*

Conjunction

or

  1. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.
    • In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
    • He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
  2. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
  3. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
  4. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
    • It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
  5. Connects two equivalent names.

Usage notes

  • (connecting alternative terms): When not implied by the meaning of the conjoins, it is generally ambiguous whether “or” is intended in an exclusive or inclusive sense. In speech, various means may be used to convey exclusivity, such as stress on the word “or” or a rising intonation before it. In a formal or technical register, and/or may be used to specify inclusivity.

Translations

Noun

or (plural ors)

  1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of OR

Noun

or (countable and uncountable, plural ors)

  1. (heraldry) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
    • or:  

Synonyms

  • (gold or yellow tincture): o., Or
  • Au (chemical symbol for gold)

Translations

  • Danish: guld (da)
  • Dutch: goud (nl), or (nl)
  • Finnish: kulta (fi)
  • French: or (fr)
  • German: Gold (de)
  • Greek: χρυσός (el) m (chrysós)
  • Italian: oro (it) m
  • Macedonian: зла́то n (zláto)
  • Portuguese: ouro (pt) m
  • Romanian: aur (ro)
  • Russian: зо́лото (ru) n (zóloto)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: златна f
    • Roman: zlatna (sh) f
  • Slovak: zlatá
  • Spanish: oro (es) m
  • Swedish: guld (sv) n

Adjective

or (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

Synonyms

Translations

  • Danish: guld (da)
  • Dutch: goud (nl)
  • Finnish: kultainen (fi)
  • French: or (fr)
  • German: golden (de)
  • Hungarian: arany (hu)
  • Italian: oro (it)
  • Macedonian: златнен m (zlatnen)
  • Polish: złoty (pl)
  • Portuguese: ouro (pt)
  • Romanian: auriu (ro)
  • Russian: золото́й (ru) (zolotój)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: златна f
    • Roman: zlatna (sh) f
  • Slovene: zlat (sl)
  • Spanish: oro (es)
  • Swedish: gyllene (sv)

Adverb

or

  1. (obsolete) Early (on).
  2. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.

Preposition

or

  1. (now archaic or dialect) Before; ere. Followed by "ever" or "ere".

Anagrams

or - Aromanian

Alternative forms

Verb

or (past participle uratã)

  1. I pray.

Synonyms

or - Basque

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /or/, [o̞r]

Noun

or anim

  1. dog

Declension

indefinite singular plural
absolutive or ora orak
ergative orek orak orek
dative ori orari orei
genitive oren oraren oren
comitative orekin orarekin orekin
causative orengatik orarengatik orengatik
benefactive orentzat orarentzat orentzat
instrumental orez oraz orez
inessive orengan orarengan orengan
locative — — —
allative orengana orarengana orengana
terminative orenganaino orarenganaino orenganaino
directive orenganantz orarenganantz orenganantz
destinative orenganako orarenganako orenganako
ablative orengandik orarengandik orengandik
partitive orik — —
prolative ortzat — —

Synonyms

or - Catalan

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA: /ˈɔr/
  • (Valencian) IPA: /ˈɔɾ/

Noun

or m (plural ors)

  1. gold
  2. (heraldry) or

Derived terms

or - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɔʁ/

Noun

or m (plural ors)

  1. gold
  2. (heraldry) or (yellow in heraldry)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: lò

Adverb

or

  1. (obsolete) now, presently

Conjunction

or

  1. yet, however, now, that said (introduces the second term in a syllogism)

Usage notes

This is often used to introduce contrasting information (like English however). However, the information need not be contrasting, but can simply be supplemental information that leads to a subsequent conclusion.

or - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɔr/

Conjunction

or

  1. now, but (in argument)

Usage notes

Or expresses not only a sequence of two propositions, but induces a new argument, a further premise, explanation, motive. When the premise (motive) follows the conclusion, nam is used instead.

or - Italian

Adverb

or (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of ora (“now”), used almost exclusively in the forms or ora (“just now”) and or sono (“ago”).

Derived terms

Anagrams

or - Japanese

Particle

or(オア) • (oa) 

  1. Alternative form of オア (“or”)

or - Middle English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /oːr/

Noun

or

  1. (Early Middle English, hapax) beginning, start

Determiner

or

  1. (chiefly Early Middle English and West Midland) Alternative form of here (“their”)

Noun

or

  1. Alternative form of ore (“honour”)

Noun

or

  1. Alternative form of ore (“ore”)

Determiner

or

  1. Alternative form of your

or - Middle French

Alternative forms

  • aur (alternate Latinized spelling)

Noun

or m (uncountable)

  1. gold (metal)
  2. gold (color)

Descendants

  • French: or
    • Haitian Creole: lò
  • → English: or

or - Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

or f or m (definite singular ora or oren, indefinite plural orer, definite plural orene)

  1. an alder (tree of genus Alnus)

Synonyms

or - Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /uːr/
  • Homophone: ord

Noun

or f (definite singular ora, indefinite plural orer, definite plural orene)

or m (definite singular oren, indefinite plural orar, definite plural orane)

  1. an alder (tree of genus Alnus)

Alternative forms

Preposition

or

  1. out of
  2. from

or - Old English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /oːr/

Noun

ōr n

  1. origin, beginning

Descendants

  • Middle English: or (early, hapax)

or - Old French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɔɾ/

Noun

or m (oblique plural ors, nominative singular ors, nominative plural or)

  1. gold (metal)
  2. gold (color)
  3. (by extension) blond(e) color

Descendants

  • Middle French: or, aur
    • French: or
      • Haitian Creole: lò
    • → English: or
  • Walloon: ôr

Adverb

or

  1. Alternative form of ore

or - Old Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈoːr/

Adjective

ōr

  1. Old West Frisian form of ōther

or - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [or]

Verb

(ele/ei) or (modal auxiliary, third-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)

  1. (they) might

Verb

or (modal auxiliary, ? form of avea, used with ? to form ? tenses)

  1. (informal, sometimes proscribed) Variation of o in the third person plural.
    • Or să vină într-un minut. ― They will come in a minute.

Adverb

or

  1. Alternative form of ori

or - Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) aur
  • ôr (Surmiran)

Noun

or m

  1. (Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) gold

or - Scots

Conjunction

or

  1. before or until (only in certain senses)
    • It'll nae be lang or A gang ma holiday.- It'll not be long until/ before I go on holiday

Usage notes

Not archaic, but rare amongst young people.

or - Scottish Gaelic

Noun

or m (genitive singular ora, plural ora or orthachan or orrachan or orthannan)

  1. hymn, incantation, petition, prayer

Synonyms

Verb

or (past dh’or, future oridh, verbal noun oradh, past participle orte)

  1. chant, sing
    • Tha Màiri ag oradh. ― Mary is singing.

or - Swedish

Noun

or n

  1. a mite

Declension

Declension of or 

Synonyms

  • kvalster

Anagrams

or - Tocharian A

Noun

or n

  1. wood

or - Tocharian B

Noun

or n

  1. wood
  • ārwa (from plural)

or - Yola

Conjunction

or

  1. Alternative form of ar
Meaning and Definition of or
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