English Explanatory Dictionary

glore

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To gaze intently, stare.
  2. To stare rudely or gloomily, glower, glare.
  3. To glow, shine.
  4. To squint.
noun
  1. A stare, fixed gaze.
  2. A glow.
noun
  1. Alternative form of glor (“fat”).
adj
  1. Alternative form of glor (“fat, fatty”).
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

glore glores gloring glored more glore most glore

Etymology

From Middle English gloren, (compare Middle English glaren (“to glare, stare, shine”)), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English *glārian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn (“to shine”). Compare Scots glore (“to stare”), West Frisian gloarje, Dutch gloren, German Low German gloren (“to glimmer; flicker”), Swedish glora, Norwegian Bokmål glore, Norwegian Nynorsk glora. Related to glare.

Derived words

glory
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