Definitions for Dour
dʊər, daʊər, ˈdaʊ ərdour

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyieldingadjective

   stubbornly unyielding

   "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

2. dour, forbidding, grimadjective

   harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

   "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie

3. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullenadjective

   showing a brooding ill humor

   "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. douradjective

   Stern, harsh and forbidding.

2. douradjective

   Unyielding and obstinate.

3. douradjective

   Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

4. Etymology: From durus, or possibly from dúr.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dour

   Dour (French pronunciation: ​[duʁ]; Picard: Doû) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 km2, giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per km2. The municipality consists of the following districts: Blaugies, Dour, Élouges, and Wihéries. Dour is often considered the western end of the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia. Since 1989, Dour has hosted the annual Dour Festival, a music festival covering various genres.

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1. dour

   Dour is an adjective used to describe someone or something as being severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance. It can also refer to something that is harsh or forbidding.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Douradjective

   hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold

2. Etymology: [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dour

   Dour is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 km², giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per km². Since 1989 Dour has hosted the annual Dour Festival, an alternative music festival. Dour is often considered the western end of the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dour

   dōōr, adj. (Scot.) obstinate: bold. [Fr.,—L. durus, hard.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DOUR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dour is ranked #88685 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Dour surname appeared 209 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Dour.
   
   86.6% or 181 total occurrences were White.
   5.2% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   4.3% or 9 total occurrences were Black.

Anagrams for Dour »

1. ordu

2. duro

3. roud

How to pronounce Dour?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Dour in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dour in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Dour in a Sentence

1. Dan Patrick:

   I think about the leftist agenda of this administration and the dour, life-is-bad, you-better-get-used-to-it personality of Biden.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Dour
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dour
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dour
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Dour
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Dour
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Dour
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html