cor
1 Americaninterjection
noun
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the tenor oboe.
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the English horn.
noun
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cordia
plural
abbreviation
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corner.
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cornet.
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coroner.
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corpus.
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correct.
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corrected.
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correction.
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correlative.
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correspondence.
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correspondent.
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corresponding.
abbreviation
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Bible. Corinthians.
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Coroner.
abbreviation
interjection
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cor1
First recorded in 1930–35; euphemistic alteration of God!
Origin of cor2
First recorded in 1865–70; from French cor (anglais) ( English ) horn
Origin of cor3
From Latin
Example Sentences
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The Home Office pathologist Dr Brian Rodgers said the cause of death was cor pulmonale, a form of heart failure, secondary to bronchopneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or lung disease.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2017
Jaqueline passou a mão de Daniel na areia macia e cor de argila, numa tentativa de estimular seu tato.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2017
Nicholas White conducts a performance of solo song settings by various composers and includes his own cantata, “The Raven,” a work in eight movements for vocal quartet, with string quartet, horn, cor anglais and piano.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2015
These include "I cor do that" instead of "I can't do that", "It wor me" instead of "It wasn't me" and "Ay?" instead of "Pardon?"
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2013
What Annabelle does know now: The word courage comes from the Latin word cor, meaning heart.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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They make decisions at cor- porations where once they worked only on assembly lines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In 1916 'he returned to America and tried to be Treasurer of The New York Times, but the cor- respondent-business, the desire to be where things were going on, was in his blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Here, in tender reverie," wrote the star cor- respondent of a moving picture magazine, "Mr. Valentino bent his head.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I can see every cor- ner of our house from my sleeping place on the floor.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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NOTE.—The forms co-, col-, com-, and cor-, are euphonic variations of con-.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
Found very few plants; noticed a flower of a Ternstrœmiacea nearly allied to the genus Camellia, cor. rotat. lacin. reflexis, albis fauce carnea. stam.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith
I am writing this in Major Hapgood’s old office, cor. 15th and F streets, where I have my old table and window.
From The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion by Walt Whitman
For other minor details as to food and bathing see de cor. mil.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
Mother, Major Hapgood has moved from his office, cor. 15th street, and I am not with him any more.
From The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion by Walt Whitman
If the discharges are bloody, use Mercurius cor. in place of the Arsenicum.
From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill
"Lead on, Prince Cor. Narnia and the North."
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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It seems probable from the bitterness with which in 2nd Cor. x.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
In this period must fall most of the journeys and adventures of 2nd Cor. xi. 23-33.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
When he combines Ps. viii. and Ps. cx. in his depiction of the reign of Christ in 1st Cor. xv. 24-27, it is a sure indication of its scope as Paul understood it.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
No miracle could excel the act of his "transforming himself into an angel of light," as stated in 2 Cor. xi.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
More and more dishes keep arriving in quick succession: the pleasantly bitter, curled shoots of the bird’s nest fern, cooked with wee beady-eyed fish and the pickled, caperlike buds of the cordia tree.
From Slate ● May 8, 2017
Their wooden dishes and, bowls, out of which they drink their ova, are of the etooa-tree, or cordia, as neat as if made in our turning-lathe, and perhaps better polished.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
While her mare pawed and tugged at the traces, she took a deep breath and watched as a gust of wind sent the blood-red blossoms from a grove of cordia trees fleeing across the road.
From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
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