or

rup-verb

or first-singular present indicative (past participle uratã)

or first-singular present indicative (canonical)
uratã (participle past)
oru (alternative)
auredz (alternative)
auredzu (alternative)
aor (alternative)
aoru (alternative)

From Latin ōrō. Compare Daco-Romanian ura, urez.


or

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

1103; variant of hor, from Proto-Basque *hoŕ. Mostly replaced by zakur.


or

From Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).


or

You may either stay or come.

He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.

Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.

(logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.

Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.

It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).

The country Myanmar, or Burma

od

euphonic alt. form used before a vowel, especially "o"

From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).


or

(logic, electronics) Alternative form of OR


or

The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".

1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry:

In engraving, "Or" is expressed by dots.

1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:

or:

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

en-noun

or (countable and uncountable, plural ors)

From late Middle English or (“gold”), borrowed from Middle French or (“yellow”), from Old French or, from Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of aurum.


or

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

guld

of yellow or gold tincture on a coat of arms


or

From Late Old English ār, from Old Norse ár. Compare ere.


or

Or euer the siluer corde be loosed, or the golden bowle be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountaine, or the wheele broken at the cisterne. Then shall the dust returne to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall returne vnto God who gaue it.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 12:6-7:

I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came, and made
My heart as dry as dust.

1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

And Time went forth into the worlds to obey the commands of the gods, yet he cast furtive glances at his masters, and the gods distrusted Time because he had known the worlds or ever the gods became.

1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 3:

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


or

la parole est d’argent, le silence est d’or

Haitian Creole: lò

From Middle French or, from Old French or, from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).


or

From Old French ore, from Vulgar Latin hā horā, alteration of hāc horā (“(in) this hour”, ablative). Compare Spanish ahora, Portuguese agora.


or

yet, however, now, that said, as it happens (introduces the second term in a syllogism)


or

Borrowing from French or, Italian ora and Spanish ahora.


or

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


or

English: or

Yola: ar, or, o'


or

(Early Middle English, hapax) beginning, start

Inherited from Old English ōr, from Proto-West Germanic *ōʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ōsaz, form Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).


or

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


or

French: or
Haitian Creole: lò

→ English: or


or

ora or oren (definite singular)
orer (indefinite plural)
orene (definite plural)


or

ora (definite singular)
orer (indefinite plural)
orene (definite plural)
oren (definite singular)
orar (indefinite plural)
orane (definite plural)

From Old Norse ǫlr, órir. Akin to English alder.


or

Han kom or fjellet, skulde heim, […].

1956, Olav H. Hauge, Gjer ein annan mann ei beine:

He came from the mountain, was heading home […] .

oto (alternative)
otor (alternative)
tor (alternative)
tur (alternative)
tu (alternative)


or

Middle English: or (early, hapax)

From Proto-Germanic *ōzô, *ōsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).


or

En bacins d'or ewe aporterent

They brought water in basins made of gold

fro-noun

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

or oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
ors (oblique plural)
ors (nominative singular)
or (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: or, aur (alternate Latinized spelling)
French: or
Haitian Creole: lò
→ English: or

Walloon: ôr


or

fiindcă or avea ceva pe care noi nu-l avem, va trebui să așteptăm puțin

being that they might have something that we don't, we will need to wait a bit

head

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


or

Or să vină într-un minut.

(informal, sometimes proscribed) Variation of o in the third person plural.

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


or

It'll nae be lang or A gang ma holiday.- It'll not be long until/ before I go on holiday

before or until (only in certain senses)

A variant of ere, obsolete in modern English.


or

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

Possibly from Old Irish amar (“song, singing”). See òran.


or

Tha Màiri ag oradh.

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

dh’or (past)
oridh (future)
oradh (noun-from-verb)
orte (participle past)


or

any mite in the superfamily Acaroidea, order Astigmata

or (indefinite nominative singular)
ors (genitive indefinite singular)
oret (definite nominative singular)
orets (definite genitive singular)
or (indefinite nominative plural)
ors (genitive indefinite plural)
oren (definite nominative plural)
orens (definite genitive plural)

Related to orna (“moldy, spoiled by mites”), Danish oret, of obscure ultimate origin. Compare oren (“impure, dirty, unclean, rotten”).


or

From Proto-Indo-European *dóru, with unexplained loss of initial */d/. Compare Tocharian B or.


or

From Proto-Indo-European *dóru, with unexplained loss of initial */d/. Compare Tocharian A or.


or

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


or

Wich ad wough bethther kwingokee or baagchoosee vursth?

1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 78:

Whether had we better churn or bake first?

Na, now or neveare! w' cry't t' Tommeen,

1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page 88:

Up caame ee ball, an a dap or a kewe

1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:

Hea pryet ich mought na ha chicke or hen,

1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:

He prayed I might not have chicken nor hen,