Definitions for gore
gɔr, goʊrgore

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 4 votes

1. Gore, Al Gore, Albert Gore Jr.noun

   Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)

2. gorenoun

   coagulated blood from a wound

3. gore, panelnoun

   a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails

4. bloodshed, goreverb

   the shedding of blood resulting in murder

   "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen"

5. goreverb

   wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument

6. goreverb

   cut into gores

   "gore a skirt"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. gorenoun

   A triangular piece of land where roads meet.

2. gorenoun

   A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.

3. gore

   A projecting point.

4. Etymology: Probably from gore, or ultimately from gar.

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

1. GOREnoun

   Etymology: gore, Saxon; gor, Welsh, sanious matter.

   1. Blood.

   A griesly wound,
   From which forth gush’d a stream of gore blood thick,
   That all her goodly garment stain’d around,
   And into a deep sanguine dy’d the grassy ground. F. Queen.

   Another’s crimes the youth unhappy bore,
   Glutting his father’s eyes with guiltless gore. John Dryden, Æn.

   2. Blood clotted or congealed.

   The bloody fact
   Will be aveng’d; though here thou see him die,
   Rolling in dust and gore. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xi.

   His horrid beard and knotted tresses stood
   Stiff with his gore, and all his wounds ran blood. John Denham.

2. To Goreverb

   Etymology: geberian, Saxon.

   1. To stab; to pierce.

   Oh, let no noble eye profane a tear
   For me, if I be gor’d with Mowbray’s spear. William Shakespeare, R. II.

   No weaker lion’s by a stronger slain;
   Nor from his larger tusks the forest boar
   Commission takes his brother swine to gore. Nahum Tate, Juven.

   For arms his men long pikes and jav’lins bore,
   And poles with pointed steel their foes in battle gore. Dryd.

   2. To pierce with a horn.

   Some toss’d, some gor’d, some trampling down he kill’d. John Dryden, the Conquest of Granada. Preface to.

   He idly butting, feigns
   His rival gor’d in every knotty trunk. James Thomson, Spring.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 3 votes

1. Gorenoun

   dirt; mud

2. Gorenoun

   blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted

3. Gore

   a wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part

4. Gore

   a small traingular piece of land

5. Gore

   one of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point

6. Goreverb

   to pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab

7. Goreverb

   to cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron

8. Etymology: [OE. gore, gare, AS. gra angular point of land, fr. gr spear; akin to D. geer gore, G. gehre gore, ger spear, Icel. geiri gore, geir spear, and prob. to E. goad. Cf. Gar, n., Garlic, and Gore, v.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gore

   Gore is a town, surrounding borough, and district in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.

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

1. Gore

   gōr, n. clotted blood: blood.—adv. Gor′ily (Tenn.), in a gory or bloody manner or state.—adj. Gor′y, covered with gore: bloody.—Gory dew, a dark-red slimy film sometimes seen on damp walls and in shady places. [A.S. gor, blood, dung; Sw. gorr, Ice. gor, gore.]

2. Gore

   gōr, n. a triangular piece let into a garment to widen it: a triangular piece of land.—v.t. to shape like or furnish with gores: to pierce with anything pointed, as a spear or horns.—n. Gor′ing, a piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width.—adj. cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing—of a sail. [A.S. gára, a pointed triangular piece of land—gár, a spear with triangular blade.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GORE

   Blood. Shed daily in Chicago abattoirs but never spilled in French duels.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gore

   In heraldry, a charge consisting of one-third of the shield cut off by two arched lines, one drawn from the dexter or sinister chief, and the other from the bottom of the escutcheon, meeting in the fess point. A gore sinister is enumerated by heralds as one of the abatements or marks of dishonor borne for unknightly conduct. See Gusset.

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1. GORE

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

1. GORE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gore is ranked #1378 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gore surname appeared 25,648 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 9 would have the surname Gore.
   
   71% or 18,215 total occurrences were White.
   22.2% or 5,714 total occurrences were Black.
   2.3% or 598 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.9% or 508 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.6% or 431 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.7% or 182 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Vice President Of The United States
   • Blood
   • Pierce
   • Tailor

Anagrams for gore »

1. ogre

2. goer

How to pronounce gore?

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

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gore in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gore in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of gore in a Sentence

1. Lord Byron:

   The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

2. Philip Dufour:

   One of the Tipper Gore children did it, trust me, it's happened before.

3. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders:

   I’m glad they reached out to Gore, but apparently they are not hearing what Gore has to say.

4. Lara Brown:

   Candidates that have a more intellectual side and are less skilled at the people side -- like Al Gore or a John Kerry or a Mitt Romney -- the worst thing that can happen is that they are over-handled.

5. Steve Rabinowitz:

   Al Gore's selection of Joe Lieberman to be his running mate was a big damn deal. It was a big deal in the community. It was a tremendous point of ethnic pride, and yet, four years later when he ran on his own for president, he got almost no support.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gore
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gore
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=gore
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gore
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gore
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=gore
7. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=gore
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html