Usually means: Basic rhythmic unit in poetry.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. mora: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mora: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. mora: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Mora, mora, mora: Wordnik
  5. mora: Wiktionary
  6. mora: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. mora: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Mora, mora: Dictionary.com
  9. Mora (Cameroun), Mora (canton), Mora (disambiguation), Mora (drink), Mora (fish), Mora (linguistics), Mora (locality), Mora (military unit), Mora (music store), Mora (mythology), Mora (plant), Mora (ship), Mora (surname), Mora: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Mora: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. mora: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Mora: Rhymezone
  13. Mora, mora, mora: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. Mora: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  15. mora: Free Dictionary
  16. mora: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. mora: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. mora-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Mora: Lexicon of Linguistics
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  5. MORA: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. mora: Legal dictionary

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

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. MORA: Acronym Finder
  3. mora: A Word A Day
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mora: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See morae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mora)

noun:  (Scots law) A delay in bringing a claim.
noun:  (poetry) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
noun:  (phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).
noun:  (botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
noun:  The common mora (Mora moro).
noun:  (historical, military) An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.
noun:  A female given name
noun:  A city, the county seat of Kanabec County, Minnesota, United States. Named after Mora, Sweden, see also Swedish Mora.
noun:  A census-designated place, the county seat of Mora County, New Mexico, United States.
noun:  bioresonance therapy
noun:  Alternative form of morra (“finger-counting game”) [A game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown.]
noun:  (India) Alternative form of morah (“stool”) [(India) A stool or footstool.]

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