Definitions for oreɔr, oʊr

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

oreɔr, oʊr(n.)

a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
Category: Mineralogy
a mineral or natural product serving as a source of some nonmetallic substance, as sulfur.
Category: Mineralogy

Origin of ore:

bef. 900; conflation of ME ore, OE ōra ore, unreduced metal; and ME or(e) ore, metal, OE ār brass; c. OS, OHG ēr, ON eir; cf. L aes bronze

Ore.

Oregon.
Category: Geography (places)

Princeton's WordNet

ore(noun)
a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
ore(noun)
a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona

Wiktionary

ore(Noun)
Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which -- at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction -- are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.

Origin: or, oor, blend of ora and ar, the first a derivate of ear, the second from aiz (compare eir, , 033003390336), from h₂eyos. Confer aes, ayah, अयस्.