Definitions for boar
bɔr, boʊrboar

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. wild boar, boar, Sus scrofanoun

   Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States

2. boarnoun

   an uncastrated male hog

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. boarnoun

   A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.

2. boarnoun

   A male pig.

3. Etymology: boor, from bar, from baizaz (compare beer, German dialect Bär), from bʰoidʰ-s-o (compare baisas 'terrible apparition', бѣсъ 'demon'), enlargement of -. More at bad.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BOARnoun

   The male swine.

   Etymology: bar, Saxon; beer, Dutch.

   To fly the boar, before the boar pursues,
   Were to incense the boar to follow us. William Shakespeare, Rich III.

   She sped the boar away;
   His eyeballs glare with fire, suffus’d with blood;
   His neck shuts up a thickest thorny wood;
   His bristled back a trench impal’d appears. John Dryden, Fables.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BOAR

   The Bombardment Aircraft Rocket, also known as BOAR, the Bureau of Ordnance Aircraft Rocket, and officially as the 30.5-Inch Rocket, Mark 1, Mod 0, was an unguided air-to-surface rocket developed by the United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Test Station during the 1950s. Intended to provide a standoff nuclear capability for carrier-based aircraft, the rocket entered operational service in 1956, remaining in service until 1963.

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1. boar

   A boar is a type of wild pig originating from Europe, Asia, and North Africa. It is characterized by its tough and coarse brownish coat, sharp tusks and a bulky, stout body. The term "boar" is also commonly used to refer to a mature male domestic pig.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boarnoun

   the uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog

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

1. Boar

   bōr, n. the male of swine, or its flesh.—adj. Boar′ish, swinish: brutal.—n. Boar′-spear, a spear used in boar-hunting. [A.S. bár; Dut. beer; Ger. bär.]

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1. boar

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Matched Categories

1. • Swine

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of boar in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of boar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of boar in a Sentence

1. Zhang Hanwen:

   Remarkably for 30 million years, the entire first half of proboscidean evolution, only two of the eight groups evolved, most proboscideans over this time were nondescript herbivores ranging from the size of a pug to that of a boar. A few species got as big as a hippo, yet these lineages were evolutionary dead-ends. They all bore little resemblance to elephants.

2. Johanna Rode-Margono:

   Javan warty pigs are of a similar body size to European wild boar but are a bit more slender and have longer heads, males have three pairs of enormous warts on their faces. It is these characteristics that have led to them being affectionately labelled as ‘the world’s ugliest pig’ but, certainly to us and our researchers, they are rather beautiful and impressive.

3. Oscar Nilsson:

   He wears the skin from a wild boar, we can see from how the human skulls and animal jaws were found that they clearly meant a big deal in their cultural and religious beliefs.

4. Mathew Amor:

   Basically Kailem wanted to catch a boar, and so a few of us got together to take him out, and another mate filmed more than an hour of video to put together as a DVD for Kailem and his family of the trip.

5. Deputy Agriculture Minister Yanko Ivanov:

   What we failed to do was reduce the population of wild boar, which, unfortunately, has a fairly dense concentration in the areas with industrial farms.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=boar
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Boar
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=boar
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boar
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=boar