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stour

[ stoor ]

noun

  1. British Dialect.
    1. tumult; confusion.
    2. a storm.
  2. British Dialect. blowing dust or a deposit of dust.
  3. Archaic. armed combat; battle.
  4. British Dialect. a time of tumult.


stour

1

/ staʊə; stuːr /

noun

  1. turmoil or conflict
  2. dust; a cloud of dust
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Stour

2

/ staʊə /

noun

  1. Also calledGreat Stour a river in S England, in Kent, rising in the Weald and flowing N to the North Sea: separates the Isle of Thanet from the mainland
  2. any of several smaller rivers in England
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stour1

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French estour battle < Germanic; akin to storm
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stour1

C14: from Old French estour armed combat, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German sturm storm
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Example Sentences

He landed in the same neighbourhood as before, and advanced 12 miles inland to the river Stour before meeting with the islanders.

I caught a beautiful fish weighing about eight or ten pounds, in the Hampshire Stour.

The artist was never tired of saying that these soft pastoral landscapes in the Stour valley made him a painter.

The spire of Honington is then seen on the left, and Shipston-on-Stour is entered.

But none has more beauty than that which runs southward to Shipston-on-Stour.

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