The word nor means

Britannica Dictionary definition of NOR

Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

nor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Norwegian.

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation): enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /nɔː/
• (US) enPR: nôr, IPA^(key): /nɔɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: gnaw (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.

Conjunction[edit]

nor

1. (literary) And… not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

   • Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

   • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman

     And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]

   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner»

     Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.

   Nor did I stop to think, but ran.

   They are happy, nor need we worry.

2. A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.

   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

   I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.

3. Used to introduce a further negative statement.

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

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

   The struggle didn’t end, nor was it diminished.

4. (UK, dialect) Than.

   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:

     ‘I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.’

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 92:

     I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.

   He’s no better nor you.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• neither

Etymology 2[edit]

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or.

Noun[edit]

nor (plural nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

Coordinate terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

• NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

Aromanian[edit]

Noun[edit]

nor

1. Alternative form of norã

Basque[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /nor/, [no̞r]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Basque *nor, containing the interrogative prefix *no-.^[1]

Pronoun[edit]

nor

1. (interrogative) who

   Nor da? ― Who is he/she?

   Ez nekien nor zinen. ― I didn’t know who you were.

   Norentzat da opari hau? ― Who is this present for?

Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From the interrogative pronoun.

Adjective[edit]

nor (indeclinable)

1. (grammatical term, used as a modifier) (of a verb) intransitive without a dative argument

   Nor aditzak euskarazko aditzik errezenak dira. ― In Basque, nor verbs are the easiest to learn.

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• «nor» in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “nor” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈnor]

Noun[edit]

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unclear, perhaps onomatopoeic, cf. brommen (“to do time”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /nɔr/
• Hyphenation: nor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

Noun[edit]

nor (only as singular, with definite article: de nor)

1. (informal) Jail, prison; imprisonment

   Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevangenis, lik

Megleno-Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin nubilum. Compare Romanian nor, Aromanian nior.

Noun[edit]

nor m

1. cloud

Norman[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• nord (continental Normandy, Guernsey, Jersey)

Etymology[edit]

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

Noun[edit]

nor m (uncountable)

1. (Sark) north

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /nɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr
• Syllabification: nor

Noun[edit]

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

Romanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• nour (regional, Moldova)
• noor (regional, Oltenia),
• nuor, nuvăr (regional, Banat)
• nuar (archaic, obsolete)

Etymology[edit]

From older nuar, nuăr, from Latin nūbilum, noun use of the neuter of the adjective nūbilus (“cloudy”), from Latin nūbēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). Compare Aromanian nior,
Spanish nube,
Italian nuvola, Friulian nûl, Portuguese nuvem, Catalan núvol.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [nor]

Noun[edit]

nor m (plural nori)

1. cloud

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

• (a se) înnora
• noros

Slovene[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Narr.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /nɔ́r/

Adjective[edit]

nȍr (comparative bȍlj nȍr, superlative nȁjbolj nȍr)

1. crazy, insane, mad

Inflection[edit]

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	nòr	nôra	nôro
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nòr ind nôri def	nôra	nôro
genitive	nôrega	nôre	nôrega
dative	nôremu	nôri	nôremu
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	nôro	nôro
locative	nôrem	nôri	nôrem
instrumental	nôrim	nôro	nôrim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nôra	nôri	nôri
genitive	nôrih	nôrih	nôrih
dative	nôrima	nôrima	nôrima
accusative	nôra	nôri	nôri
locative	nôrih	nôrih	nôrih
instrumental	nôrima	nôrima	nôrima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nôri	nôre	nôra
genitive	nôrih	nôrih	nôrih
dative	nôrim	nôrim	nôrim
accusative	nôre	nôre	nôra
locative	nôrih	nôrih	nôrih
instrumental	nôrimi	nôrimi	nôrimi

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• “nor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish[edit]

Noun[edit]

nor

1. narrow strait

Anagrams[edit]

• ron

Veps[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Related to Finnish nuora. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun[edit]

nor

1. string

Declension[edit]

Inflection of nor (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	nor
genitive sing.	noran
partitive sing.	norad
partitive plur.	norid
	singular	plural
nominative	nor	norad
accusative	noran	norad
genitive	noran	noriden
partitive	norad	norid
essive-instructive	noran	norin
translative	noraks	norikš
inessive	noras	noriš
elative	noraspäi	norišpäi
illative	noraha	norihe
adessive	noral	noril
ablative	noralpäi	norilpäi
allative	norale	norile
abessive	norata	norita
comitative	noranke	noridenke
prolative	noradme	noridme
approximative I	noranno	noridenno
approximative II	norannoks	noridennoks
egressive	norannopäi	noridennopäi
terminative I	norahasai	norihesai
terminative II	noralesai	norilesai
terminative III	norassai	—
additive I	norahapäi	norihepäi
additive II	noralepäi	norilepäi

Yola[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

nor

1. Alternative form of noor

   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3:

     Mye thee friend ne’re waant welcome, nor straayart comfoort.

     May thy friend ne’er want welcome, nor the stranger comfort.

References[edit]

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 100

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Go to Preferences page and choose from different actions for taps or mouse clicks. WordReference Random House Learner’s Dictionary of American English © 2023 nor /nɔr; unstressed nɚ/USA pronunciation   conj.  (used in negative phrases, esp. after neither, to introduce new items in a list or series):Neither he nor I will be there. (used to express a connection plus a continuing of the force of a negative word coming before it, such as not, no, never, etc.):I never saw him again, nor did I regret it. She couldn’t make it to the party, nor could we. She had no way of knowing, nor did we, that her husband was injured. Notice that in the examples for definition 2 an auxiliary verb like did, or a modal verb like could, comes after nor, and the subject follows the auxiliary or modal:..nor did I..; nor could we.. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023 nor  (nôr; unstressed nər),USA pronunciation conj.  (used in negative phrases, esp. after neither, to introduce the second member in a series, or any subsequent member):Neither he nor I will be there. They won’t wait for you, nor for me, nor for anybody. (used to continue the force of a negative, as not, no, never, etc., occurring in a preceding clause):He left and I never saw him again, nor did I regret it. (used after an affirmative clause, or as a continuative, in the sense of and not):They are happy, nor need we worry. [Older Use.]than. [Archaic.](used without a preceding neither, the negative force of which is understood):He nor I was there. [Archaic.](used instead of neither as correlative to a following nor):Nor he nor I was there. 1300–50; Middle English, contraction of nother, Old English nōther, equivalent. to ne not + ōther (contraction of ōhwæther) either; compare or1 See neither.  nor-, a combining form used in the names of chemical compounds which are the normal or parent forms of the compound denoted by the base words:l-norepinephrine. short for normal NOR  (nôr),USA pronunciation n. Computinga Boolean operator that returns a positive result when both operands are negative. Nor., Norman. North. Northern. Place NamesNorway. Norwegian. nor., north. northern. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: nor /nɔː; (unstressed) nə/ conj , prep (coordinating) neither … nor ⇒ (used to join alternatives) and not: neither measles nor mumps followed by an auxiliary verb or have, do, or be used as main verbs: (and) not … either: they weren’t talented — nor were they particularly funny dialect than: better nor me poetic neither: nor wind nor rain Etymology: 13th Century: contraction of Old English nōther, from nāhwæther neither WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023 NOR  (nôr),USA pronunciation n. Computinga Boolean operator that returns a positive result when both operands are negative. 1955–60 ‘nor‘ also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): … this Department had neither a manager nor a team therefore … … and <neither, nor> do I think … … neither myself nor my wife are residents … ‘Nor’ or ‘either’? ‘nor’ or ‘neither’ ‘Nor’ or ‘Or’ after negative prefix? (neither …… nor) [Neither…] Nor angry Heaven, Nor a forgiving king A and B didn’t/Neither A nor B a driving license, nor an/ the insurance. a neither nor story ! a Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity A: I am not tired. B: <Neither, Nor> am I. about inversion in “neither …nor” About «neithe…nor» about «NOR» About the use of «neither, either and nor» Adjective possessive with neither…nor after «neither» only one «nor» or infinite «nor» allowed neither/nor An attractive woman that is neither thin nor fat? And nor and nor… Another use of <Neither … nor> any man’s little <petsy-wetsy, nor his chair à plaisir> as neither Roderick Random, nor capatins, had ever cried, <that I could remember> as/nor/neither Ave a crumpet, gov’nor babyish, nor indeed Be neither fish nor fowl more… Look up «nor» at Merriam-Webster Look up «nor» at dictionary.com In other languages: Spanish | French | Italian | Portuguese | Romanian | German | Dutch | Swedish | Russian | Polish | Czech | Greek | Turkish | Chinese | Japanese | Korean | Arabic

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