tor
noun
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
tor
1 American
[tawr]
/ tɔr /
noun
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tors
plural
-tor
2
American
tor
British
/ tɔː /
noun
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a high hill, esp a bare rocky one
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a prominent rock or heap of rocks, esp on a hill
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tor1
before 900; Middle English; Old English torr < Celtic; compare Irish tor rocky height, Welsh twr heap, pile
Origin of -tor2
< Latin -tor (stem -tōr- ), cognate with Greek -tōr (stem -tor- ), Sanskrit -tar-
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But tor decades Black and Hispanic students have been woefully under-represented, while Asian Americans made up more than 70% of the student body.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
If you're foregoing and just placing directly on the cookie sheet, just be mindful that it might be a bit tricky tor remove after cooking.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2023
But tor the women here, there’s a feeling that the line between paranoia and credible fear has been erased.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2018
And then, for fun, she tried to balance a pile of small stones on the grass, intending to echo those that had been piled by nature on the tor.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2016
The tor top was speckled with men and women who came to Hook Mountain in the autumn to count the birds of prey.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Regrā′ter, -tor, a huckster who buys and sells provisions in the same fair; Regrā′ting.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Thou wast the daughter of my tu- -tor, law professor at the U- -niversity of Gottingen, -niversity of Gottingen.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
See -ter, -ther. -tor, the agent, as conductor.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
There’s plenty to love about “Blood of My Blood,” especially a return to the 18th century Highlands, with tartans, castles and craggy tors aplenty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
From tree-topped tors to man-made monoliths, people shared with BBC News their particular sights - and sites - that means the trip is nearing its end.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2017
Their inves- tors, usually a combination of larger money-management firms and wealthy individuals, presented them with billions of dollars to trade.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 4, 2014
In the art tombs are laid away examples of the work of the great painters and sculp- tors of other times.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exmoor is not generally heather-covered, but its tors and hillsides are clothed with a wiry colourless grass and the hardy, prickly furze.
From Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by John Presland
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