Moira
Americannoun
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Moirai
plural
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Classical Mythology.
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the personification of fate.
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Moirai, the Fates. See fate.
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(often lowercase) (among ancient Greeks) a person's fate or destiny.
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a female given name.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Moira
From Greek moîra “part, portion of booty, one’s portion in life, division (of land, people), political party,” related to Greek méros “a part”
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In November, Rainbow Corner, in Moira in County Down, received a letter from the owners of Deramore Orange Hall asking it to leave by 30 June 2027.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Bouma, working with Moira Jardine of the University of St Andrews, focused on an unusual class of M dwarfs known as complex periodic variables.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
In his email to members on Saturday, MacAskill also said the party would continue to support Salmond's widow Moira in court action against the Scottish government.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
Moira was there for me off and on as I tried to settle into a new life and stop the pattern of moving every couple years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
Moira stood politely aside, and Aunt Elizabeth hurried into the cubicle Moira had indicated and bent over the back of the toilet.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
The actress also points to the mythological figures known as The Fates or Moirai, who appear throughout the series and become increasingly central to Zoe's emotional unravelling.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
He now lives back in New York, where his next project will be Gbadu and the Moirai Index, a work for four female singers to be performed near the New York stock exchange.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013
Public fact becomes private reality, and the seasons of a Midwestern town become the Moirai of our small lives.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
To keep this pact, I find surpass my power; Rescind it, Moirai!
From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke
The harps of the minstrels hung silent on the wall, and men spake in whispering voices, for the awful Moirai were at hand to bear Alkestis to the shadowy kingdom.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
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