Definitions of nor [ɔr; unstressed nər]

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Definition of 'nor'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (conj.) nor
(used in negative phrases, esp. after neither, to introduce the second member in a series, or any subsequent member):
Neither he nor I will be there. They won't wait for you, nor for me, nor for anybody.

2.  nor
(used to continue the force of a negative, as not, no, never, etc., occurring in a preceding clause):
I never saw him again, nor did I regret it.

3.  nor
(used after an affirmative clause, or as a continuative, in the sense of and not):
They are happy, nor need we worry.

4.  nor
Older Use. than.

5.  nor
Archaic. (used without a preceding neither, the negative force of which is understood):
He nor I was there.

6.  nor
Archaic. (used instead of neither as correlative to a following nor):
Nor he nor I was there.

7. (n.) NOR
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when both operands are negative.

Etymology: (1955–60)

Definition of 'nor'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (conjunction) nor
used to add another piece of negative information
The hotel is not quiet, nor is it newly decorated.

Definition of 'nor'

Webster Dictionary

1. nor
a negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor

Translation of 'nor'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: and not; neither He did not know then what had happened, nor did he ever find out; I'm not going, nor is John.
Afrikaans: nóg	Arabic: وَلا	Bulgarian: нито
Brazilian: nem	Czech: ani	German: auch nicht
Danish: ej heller; heller ikke	Greek: ούτε	Spanish: ni, tampoco
Estonian: ega	Farsi: نه اين و نه ان	Finnish: eikä
French: d'ailleurs, non plus	Hebrew: לא וְלא	Hindi: और न तो
Croatian: niti, također ne	Hungarian: sem	Indonesian: juga tidak
Icelandic: (hvorki .{{TH}}.{{TH}}.)	Italian: neanche, nemmeno	Japanese: ～も～ない
Korean: ...도 또한 ...아니다	Lithuanian: taip ir... ne-, taip pat	Latvian: arī ne
Malay: begitu juga	Dutch: noch	Norwegian: heller ikke, (verken) ...
Polish: ani (też)	Persian: نه اين و نه ان	Pashto: نه دهغه نه هغه
Portuguese: nem	Romanian: nici	Russian: (да) и не; также не; не,
Slovak: ani	Slovenian: niti	Serbian: ni
Swedish: ... och inte heller	Thai: ไม่ (มักใช้คู่กับ neither	Turkish: (ve) ne de
Taiwanese: 也不	Ukrainian: також не	Urdu: نہ تو، اور نہ ہي
Vietnamese: cũng không	Chinese: 也不
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