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bor¹

Where it comes from

Possibly from Old English ġebūr (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”)

noun bors

  1. Norfolk man (not used for children).

Bor²

proper noun

  1. A town in the Czech Republic.
  2. One of several villages in Russia
  3. A town in Serbia.
  4. A city in South Sudan.
  5. A village in Catalonia, Spain.
  6. A village in Sweden.
  7. A town in Turkey.

BOR³

noun BORs

  1. abbreviation, countable, historical, initialism Initialism of (member of) British other ranks
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of board of review
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of branchio-oto-renal syndrome

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: drilling, slow, tiresome, wearisome, deadening, tedious, irksome, dull, ho-hum, uninteresting, oil production, ordinance, bill, port, wine, boer

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@misc{bor_2026,
  title = {bor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}