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noun

ˈmu̇r How to pronounce moor (audio)
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as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country as she wanders the windswept moor, the novel's heroine vows that she will never marry the vicar

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as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water a mysterious figure who was said to have haunted the moors of southwest England

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moor

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verb

as in to fasten
to put securely in place or in a desired position moored the boat to the dock

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Recent Examples of moor
Noun
As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026 But then, yeah, there’s the tweed jacket, elbow patches, the cabin on the moors. — Longreads, 26 May 2026
Verb
And weighty ropes—the sort that might be used to moor a boat—are braided with chains and arranged on the ground in the form of a curving river. — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026 The boys sailed into Da Nang Harbor at night, then moored to a giant tanker in a Russian naval base. — George Boedecker Jr, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for moor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moor
  1. prairie
  2. marsh
  3. fasten
  4. steppe
  5. wetland
  6. secure
  7. plain
  8. swamp
Noun
  • Vintage finds, including an antique Swedish farm table, sit alongside custom bronze racks, while a swath of grass has been installed along the length of the shopfront window, nodding to the prairies of Wescoat Pound’s native Midwest.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • On the ground, bike riders and hikers pass prairie plants and native grasses laden with early fall seed — little blue stem, yellow prairie grass, goldenrod, whorled milkweed, purple cone flower, common milkweed, coreopsis and others.
    — Susan DeGrane, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of prairie
Noun
  • Before the healing process was complete, however, Scotty died in what scientists believe was a salty marsh.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In Cusk’s first novel after the blockbuster Outline trilogy, a woman invites an artist to stay at her home on a marsh, and things unravel from there.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of marsh
Verb
  • At the textile factory, Periyasaamy was folding and packing aprons with a GoPro fastened to her head.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Whitney did her own makeup, put on her Nike Cortez sneakers, and fastened an ivory bandana around her head.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
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  • The landscape is dry and largely treeless, with canyons and volcanic monoliths periodically interrupting the otherwise unending steppe.
    — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • In many of his shots, the big sky of Ukraine’s fields and steppe swallows the frame.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of steppe
Noun
  • Napa and East Palo Alto impacts are mostly to natural lands like depressional wetlands, lagoons, and snowy plover habitat, while East Oakland is mainly due to BART and the Oakland Airport.
    — Zoe Mintz, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The forum organized by Sachs was meant to be a listening session to determine the future of wetlands and farmland in the Ag Reserve, a huge swath of land west of Florida’s Turnpike.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of wetland
Verb
  • Despite increasingly sophisticated tools, the panelists stressed that technology alone will not secure a career.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • If something looks wrong, secure your Facebook account right away.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of secure
Noun
  • The men rushed on to the plain, setting more trees ablaze and hurling rocks.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Temperatures are expected to drop to freezing or below late Thursday night into early Friday morning across much of the plains.
    — Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of plain
Noun
  • The rain is expected to stop by kickoff, but not after nearly 24 hours of it, which may have turned the grass surface of Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium into a swamp (it is equipped with quite the advanced draining system).
    — Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Del Rey’s husband, Jeremy Dufrene, will even have a bit role as Mud Dog Mike, Back Country Radio’s roving reporter, swamp meteorologist, and airboat captain (which Dufrene is in real life).
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2026
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