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proper nounproper nountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈmɔː//
  • United States//ˈmɔɹ//
  • //mɔːˈreɪ//
  • //ˈmo(ː)ɹ//
  • //ˈmoə//

The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.

Etymology

From French mooré, from Moore moore (“Moore language”), from moaaga (“Mossi person”) + -re (suffix for names of languages).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

  2. 2

    A small village and civil parish (without a council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3491).

Etymology

* As a Scottish and English surname, variant of Moore. * As a French surname, from Old French more (“Moor”), respelled from Latin Maurus. Compare Mauro. * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from mór (“big”). * As an Indian (Maharashtra) surname, from Marathi मोर (mor, “peacock”), from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra).

Forms

plural
Mores
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).