- plural of os.
ora
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noun
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oras,
plural
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orae
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ora
before 950; < Old English ōra < Old Norse plural aurar monetary unit < Latin aureus aureus
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"WOW rita ora really ate this look up i am fully obsessed with it!!" wrote one fan on Twitter.
From Salon ● May 2, 2023
Cobb could be a No. 3 starter for some clubs ora nice back-of-the-rotation pick-up for the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2021
“Kia ora from New Zealand,” chirps John Palethorpe.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2019
The party was able to push ahead with policies to foster the Maori language and a strategy to deliver services to Maori people called whanau ora, after the native word for family.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 29, 2011
These pounds consisted of pennies, each weighing one ora or ounce, of the value of 20 pence.
From A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers by Susannah Watts
The determining all causes by the same magistrates, and not orae in one court and another in another, as at Lacedaemon, has the same influence.
From Politics: A Treatise on Government by William Ellis
An examination of these documents shows the possessions of Dirk as in Westflinge et circa oras Rheni, i.e. west of the Vlie and around the mouths of the Rhine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
But the jussive petatur could be continuing from ite in the first line; compare Statius Sil IV iv 4-5 'atque ubi Romuleas uelox penetraueris arces, / continuo dextras flaui pete Thybridis oras'.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
After Euxinas, corruption from oras to undas would be very easy, the inverse less so.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
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