cor
interjection
gor.
cor
1 American
[kor]
/ kɒr /
interjection
British Dialect.
cor
2
American
[kawr]
/ kɔr /
noun
Chiefly British.
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the tenor oboe.
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the English horn.
cor
3
American
[kawr, kohr]
/ kɔr, koʊr /
noun
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cordia
plural
cor-
4
American
cor.
5
American
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.
Cor.
6
American
abbreviation
-
Bible. Corinthians.
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Coroner.
Cor.
1
British
abbreviation
cor
2
British
/ kɔː /
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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Bell's work leaned on his background in classical music, and he introduced instruments like the celesta, sitar, oboe, bassoon, cor anglais and bells into his rococo arrangements.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2022
The translators could easily have written “pieno ho il cor dell’immagin vostra.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
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
When the boy Miles sang, Christine Pendrill's cor anglais combined beguilingly with Michael Clayton-Jolly's piping treble; Susanna Stranders moved from the piano to celesta, spinning eerie lines whenever Peter Quint made a ghostly appearance.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 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
They make decisions at cor- porations where once they worked only on assembly lines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Here, in tender reverie," wrote the star cor- respondent of a moving picture magazine, "Mr. Valentino bent his head.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can see every cor- ner of our house from my sleeping place on the floor.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
NOTE.—The forms co-, col-, com-, and cor-, are euphonic variations of con-.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
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
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
For the foul breath that comes on, use Mercurius cor., especially if the diarrhœa assumes a reddish tinge, like beef brine.
From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill
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
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
"Lead on, Prince Cor. Narnia and the North."
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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
As it turned out Paul actually followed the itinerary outlined in 1st Cor. xvi. 1-6, but not until after distressing experiences.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
Here it is that old Things are past away, all Things are new, all Things are of God, 2 Cor. v.
From John Woolman's Journal by John Woolman
We have 2 Cor. vi. 14-18, which seems to point out that, in the primitive Church, the wicked were not allowed in the assemblies of the faithful.
From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by John Ruskin
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
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
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
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