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tor¹
- /tɔː/ UK
- /toɹ/ US
- /toː/ Australia, New Zealand
- /tɔːɹ/ Scotland
Sounds like torr, tore (horse–hoarse merger), tour (UK, pour–poor merger), taw (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English tor, torr-, from Old English torr, tor (“a high rock, lofty hill, tower”), possibly from Proto-Celtic, compare Old Welsh *tor (“hill”); ultimately from Latin turris (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis, “tower”), of non-Indo-European origin.
Cognate with Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr, Welsh twr, Irish tor, French tor, and Romansh tor/tur/tuor; the first four are Celtic (from Latin turris), the last two directly from Latin turris (from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) and τύρσις (túrsis)). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. Doublet of tourelle, tower, and turret.
noun tors
- A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock. Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, […]
- A hill with such rock formation. She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors—and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.
tor²
- /tɔː/ UK
- /toɹ/ US
- /toː/ Australia, New Zealand
- /tɔːɹ/ Scotland
Sounds like torr, tore (horse–hoarse merger), tour (UK, pour–poor merger), taw (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
adjective more tor · most tor
- Alternative form of tore ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").
TOR³
noun
- Initialism of terms of reference
- Initialism of transcript of records, an official record of a student's or graduate's academic achievements at the college or university level, including all courses taken, grades earned, and credits.
proper noun Tor. · Tor
- Abbreviation of Toronto
Tor⁴
- /tɔːɹ/
- /tɔɹ/ US
Sounds like taur, tour (pour–poor merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Acronym of The Onion Routing.
proper noun tor · TOR · T.O.R.
- Acronym of The Onion Routing, an implementation of second-generation onion routing. Two weeks before Ulbricht was sentenced, his lawyer sought to dispel the notion that his website, which enabled people around the world to anonymously buy politically disfavored intoxicants with bitcoin via the Tor network, was "a more dangerous version of a traditional drug marketplace."
Tor⁵
- /tɔːɹ/
- /tɔɹ/ US
Sounds like taur, tour (pour–poor merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Clipping of Toronto.
proper noun Tor. · TOR · TOR.
- Abbreviation of Toronto
ToR⁶
noun
- Initialism of transcript of records
- Initialism of terms of reference What I am seeing is governance committees (and therefore, whole Boards) being exposed to risk through the ‘cut n paste’ development of their ToR.
- Symbol for tons of refrigeration
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: crag, bft, door, gate, gateway, sep, tpn, doc, peak, track, rpt, ee, tour, tpr, tori, tdr
Translations
Every language
noun outcrop of rock
| Español | risco |
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title = {tor},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tor},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
