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ure¹

Where it comes from

From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre, opera, and opus.

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable, in collocations in ure Use, practise, exercise. I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre

verb ures · uring · ured

  1. ambitransitive, obsolete To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice. 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37, […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]

ure²

Where it comes from

From Middle French ure or its etymon Latin ūrus. Doublet of urus.

noun ures

  1. rare Synonym of aurochs. The Vre therefoꝛe ryſeth in the fardeſt partes of all Richmondeſhyꝛe, among the Coterine hilles, in a moſſe, towarde the weſt fourtéene myles beyonde Mydleham.

    Similar: aurochs

ure³

contraction

  1. Internet, abbreviation, contraction, informal, rare Abbreviation of you're (you are).

Ure⁴

Where it comes from

From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from *Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic *Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.

proper noun

  1. A river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows through Wensleydale
  2. A surname.

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@misc{ure_2026,
  title = {ure},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ure},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}