-tor

¹ American  

1. a suffix found in loanwords from Latin, forming personal agent nouns from verbs and, less commonly, from nouns.

   dictator; genitor; janitor; orator; victor.

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tor ² American  

[tawr] / tɔr /

noun

1. a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.

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tor British  

/ tɔː /

noun

1. a high hill, esp a bare rocky one

2. a prominent rock or heap of rocks, esp on a hill

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Etymology

Origin of -tor¹

< Latin -tor (stem -tōr- ), cognate with Greek -tōr (stem -tor- ), Sanskrit -tar-

Origin of tor¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English torr < Celtic; compare Irish tor rocky height, Welsh twr heap, pile

Example Sentences

“I’ll drop you at the port town in Lithia, Bryn Tor, where the Senate is next to land. It’s not on my way, but it’s not too much of a detour. And then that’s it for me, do you understand? I have business to do, and people to see, and you impose overmuch already.”

From Literature

They docked at Bryn Tor the next day, in the late afternoon.

From Literature

“Warren and I didn’t have time to load supplies at Bryn Tor,” he said.

From Literature

"Excitons carry self-oscillating energy, imparted by the initial excitation, which impacts the surrounding electrons in the material at tunable frequencies. Because the excitons are created from the electrons of the material itself, they couple much more strongly with the material than light. And crucially, it takes significantly less light to create a population of excitons dense enough to serve as an effective periodic drive for hybridization - which is what we have now observed," explains co-author Professor Gianluca Stefanucci of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

From Science Daily

In addition to the Double VPN mentioned above, NordVPN offers Onion over VPN, which adds the Tor network for additional anonymity.

From Salon

Related Words

• alp
• bluff
• butte
• cliff
• crag
• elevation
• eminence
• height
• mesa
• mount
• palisade
• peak
• pike
• precipice
• range
• ridge
• sierra
• volcano