lore

• (General American) enPR: lôr, IPA^(key): /lɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lô, IPA^(key): /lɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: lōr, IPA^(key): /lo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /loə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

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• Homophone: law (in some non-rhotic accents)

From Middle English lore, from Old English lār, from West Germanic *lairu, from Proto-Germanic *laizō, from *laizijaną (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre. See also learn.

lore (countable and uncountable, plural lores)

1. All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.

   the lore of the Ancient Egyptians

   • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen

     He to them calles and speakes, yet nought avayles;

     They heare him not, they have forgot his lore

     But go which way they list; their guide they have forelore.

2. The backstory created around a fictional universe.
3. (obsolete) Workmanship.
   • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen

     In her right hand a rod of peace shee bore,

     About the which two serpents weren wound;

     Entrayled mutually in lovely lore,

     And by the tailes together firmely bound […]

From Latin lorum (“thong, strap”)

lore (plural lores)

1. (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
2. (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

• lored

lore

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose
2. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose, used in the sense of "left"
   • Edmund Spenser

     Neither of them she found where she them lore.

• Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, orle, relo, role, rôle

From Latin flos, florem.

lore

1. flower

From lor (“at the time of, at the same time as”) +‎ -e (“adverb”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.re/, /ˈlɔ.ɾɛ/

lore

1. (demonstrative adverb) then, at the time

   Ilu forsis la chefa pordo, iris trans la longa vestibulo e lore apertis la pordo dil koqueyo.

   He forced the main door, went through the long hall, and then opened the door of the kitchen.

• lora (“then, now”)

• ita (“that (person)”)
• ito (“that (thing)”)
• iti (“that (plural)”)
• pro ito (“therefore”)
• ibe (“there”)
• tala (“such kind of”)
  • tale (“thus”)
• tanta (“so much”)

From Old English lār, from Proto-Germanic *laizō. Compare Middle Low German lêre, lêr, Middle High German lēre, Middle Dutch lere, Old Frisian lāre.

• loore, lare, lar, layre, loare, lere, leyre, leore, lære

• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /laːr(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /lɔːr(ə)/

lore (plural lores or loren)

1. education, tutoring, mentoring; learning; the absorption of knowledge
2. lore, knowledge, information, especially:
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… …taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto… And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”

   1. (religion) religious beliefs, doctrine, orthodoxy
   2. area of study, subject, topic, science
   3. (rare) The foundations of a subject; the collected works on a topic.
3. recommendation, suggestion, tip; admonition, exhortation, pleading
4. A moral code; standards of conduct; a way of acting, standard.
5. A demand, order, or task
6. (rare) knowledge, aptitude, competence
7. (rare) significance, value, importance
8. (rare) tale, narrative

• larðewe
• larew
• larspel
• loresman
• lorfadyr
• lorþeine

• English: lore
• Scots: lare, lair

• “lōr(e (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

From Old English lor.

• IPA^(key): /lɔːr(ə)/

lore

1. loss (losing something)
2. loss (having soldiers killed in battle)
3. ruin, destruction, injury.

• English: lore

• “lōre (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

lore m (possessive, plural)

1. theirs