Usually means: Open land; often marshy, heath.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. moor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Moor, moor: Merriam-Webster
  3. Moor, moor, moor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Moor, moor, moor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. moor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Moor, moor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Moor, moor: Wordnik
  8. moor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Moor, moor: Wiktionary
  10. moor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Moor, moor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. moor: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Moor, moor, the moor: Dictionary.com
  14. Moor, moor (n.), moor (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. moor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Moor (disambiguation), Moor (film), Moor (people), Moor, The Moor (The Borgias), The Moor (disambiguation), The Moor (novel), The Moor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Moor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. moor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. moor: Rhymezone
  20. Moor (nt), moor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. moor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Moor: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. moor: FreeDictionary.org
  24. moor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Moor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. moor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Moor (people), moor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. MOOR: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Moor (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. moor, moor: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. moor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Moor: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
noun:  A game preserve consisting of moorland.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
verb:  (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
noun:  (historical) A member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.
noun:  (historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Amazigh origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.
noun:  (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
noun:  (dated) A person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
noun:  A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya Arabic language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A surname from Irish.
noun:  An English surname transferred from the given name.

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