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carr¹

  • /kɑː/ UK
  • /kɑɹ/ US

Sounds like car, Carr, Karr · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English kerr and Middle English carr meaning meadow, field or grassland of a low lying variety; possibly related to Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

noun carrs

  1. Any marsh; marshy ground, swampland. The marsh lands or ‘carrs’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.
  2. In particular, a marsh or fen formed when the litter of decaying reeds (e.g. in a lake) raises the ground level above the water, allowing more vegetation like sedges and then low bushes or trees to grow; a marshy woodland. (Compare marsh, swamp, bog, fen.)

carr²

  • /kɑː/ UK
  • /kɑɹ/ US

Sounds like car, Carr, Karr · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

noun carrs

  1. archaic Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”).

carr³

  • /kɑː/ UK
  • /kɑɹ/ US

Sounds like car, Carr, Karr · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Northumbrian Old English carr; possibly adopted from a Cumbric *carreg, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”).

noun carrs

  1. Rock.

Carr⁴

  • /kɑː(ɹ)/

Sounds like car · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

* As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Kerr.

* As an Irish surname, from the root of the surname Keary, from ciar (“black”); compare Carey.

* Also as an Irish surname, named after a priest Cathair (compare cathair (“fort”))

* Also as an Irish surname, from a personal name derived from corr (“pointed, projected point”).

proper noun Carrs · Kerr · Corr · Corry · Corrie · Curry

  1. countable, uncountable A northern English habitational surname from Old Norse derived from Old Norse kjarr (“brushwood”).
  2. countable, uncountable A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, a variant of Kerr.
  3. countable, uncountable A surname from Irish, anglicized from Irish Ó Carra, Ó Cairre. That’s what prompted new FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to send a “letter of inquiry” to CBS, asking the network to hand over the unedited tapes and transcript.
  4. countable, uncountable An Irish surname, a variant of Kilcar.
  5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado; named for railroad official Robert E. Carr.
  6. countable, uncountable A township in Clark County, Indiana.
  7. countable, uncountable A township in Jackson County, Indiana.
  8. countable, uncountable A township in Durham County, North Carolina.
  9. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Orange County, North Carolina.
  10. countable, uncountable A river in West Greenwich, Rhode Island; flowing 6 km from Carr Pond to the Big River.
  11. countable, uncountable A suburb of Ramsbottom, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD7817), and two other locations in Greater Manchester.
  12. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Laughton en le Morthen parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK5190).

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: shrub, artist, carl, kar, she, emily, saunders, mcmaster, karr, swamp, marsh, mire, morass, fen, bog, muskeg

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@misc{carr_2026,
  title = {carr},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/carr},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}