nor

• (Received Pronunciation): enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /nɔː/
• (US) enPR: nôr, IPA^(key): /nɔːɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
• Homophone: gnaw (in non-rhotic accents)

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.

nor

1. (literary) And not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
   • (Can we date this quote?) Boethius

     Out with it, nor hold it fast within your breast.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson

     Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

   • Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman

     And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]

   Nor did I stop to think, but ran.

2. A function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

   I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.

3. Used to introduce a further negative statement.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

   The struggle didn't end, nor was it any less diminished.

4. (Britain, dialectal) Than.
   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:

     'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 92:

     I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.

   He's no better nor you.

• neither

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or

nor (plural nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

• and
• nand
• or
• xor

• NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

nor

1. Alternative form of norã

nor

1. who

   Nor da? ― Who is she? / Who is he?

   Ez nekien nor zinen. ― I didn't know who you were.

   Badakizu nor etorri den? ― Do you know who's comming?

• Rhymes: -ɔr

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nor (only as singular, with definite article: de nor)

1. (informal) Jail, prison; imprisonment

   Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevangenis, lik

• nord (continental Normandy, Guernsey, Jersey)

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

nor m (uncountable)

1. (Sark) north

• nour (regional, Moldova)
• noor (regional, Oltenia),
• nuor, nuvăr (regional, Banat)
• nuar (archaic, obsolete)

From older nuar, nuăr, from Latin nūbilum, noun use of the neuter of the adjective nūbilus (“cloudy”), from Latin nūbēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). Compare Aromanian nior, Italian nuvola, Friulian nûl, Portuguese nuvem, Catalan núvol.

• IPA^(key): [nor]

nor m (plural nori)

1. cloud

• (a se) înnora
• noros

From German Narr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ́r/
• Tonal orthography: nȍr

nòr (comparative bòlj nòr, superlative nàjbolj nòr)

1. crazy, insane, mad

Related to Finnish nuora.

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