Or

Conjunction

 * 1) Connects at least two words, phrases, clauses, etc. that each could make a sentence true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is "either...or".
 * The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk, and is sessile on the calyptra base
 * 1) Logical union of two sets of values. There are two forms, an exclusive or and an inclusive or.
 * 2) Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
 * 3) otherwise; a consequence of the condition that the previous is false
 * It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
 * It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!

Synonyms

 * and/or

Noun

 * 1)  The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
 * 1909, The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent". &mdash; Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
 * 1889, In engraving, "Or" is expressed by dots. &mdash; Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry

Synonyms

 * o., Or

Related terms

 * Au

Adjective

 * 1)  Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

Synonyms

 * gold

Adverb

 * 1)  Early (on).
 * 2)  Earlier, previously.

Preposition

 * 1)  Before; ere.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
 * "Sey ye never so," seyde Sir Bors, "for many tymys or this she hath bene wroth with you, and aftir that she was the firste that repented hit."

Thesaurus
achievement, alerion, and/or, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aureate, aureateness, auric, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, beige, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, buff, buff-yellow, cadency mark, canary, canary-yellow, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, citron, citron-yellow, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, cream, creamy, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ecru, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fallow, fallowness, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, flaxen, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lemon, lemon-yellow, lion, lozenge, luteolous, lutescent, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, octofoil, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, saltire, sand-colored, sandy, scutcheon, shield, spread eagle, straw, straw-colored, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, xanthic, xanthous, yale, yellow, yellowish, yellowishness, yellowness

Pronunciation

 * , awe
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 * , awe
 * , awe
 * , awe
 * , awe
 * , awe
 * , awe
 * , awe

Etymology 1
oþþe:.

Etymology 2
From or:, from  aurum:

Etymology 3
Late ar:, from Scandinavian (compare Old Norse ár:). Compare ere:.

Conjunction

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܐܘ (’āw)
 * Hebrew: או (’āw)
 * Armenian: կամ (kam)
 * Asturian:
 * Basque: edo, ala
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: pe
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: o, o bé
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ; ,
 * Cornish:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish: tai (exclusive, only in affirmative clauses); vai (inclusive, only in question clauses)
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gothic:
 * Greek:, είτε
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: या, कि
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: od, o
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: o
 * Irish:


 * Italian:, (euphonic alt. form used before a vowel),
 * Japanese: (又は), あるいは, ,
 * Khmer: (reu)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:, یان
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Mongolian: эсвэл
 * Navajo: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: o
 * Old English: hwæþer þe, oþþe
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Serbian: или
 * Sindhi: (yā)
 * Slovak: alebo,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: లేదా (léda)
 * Thai:, หรือว่า
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: يا
 * Vietnamese:, hay là,
 * West Frisian:

Noun

 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: oro
 * Macedonian:


 * Romanian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: златна
 * Roman: zlatna
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: златнен
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: златна
 * Roman: zlatna
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * RO

Noun

 * 1) gold (metal)
 * 2) * circa 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar
 * En bacins d'or ewe aporterent
 * They brought water in basins made of gold

Noun

 * 1) dog

Noun

 * 1) gold

Etymology
From aurum:.

Noun

 * 1) gold

Related terms

 * orfèvre

Adverb

 * 1)  now, presently

Conjunction

 * 1) yet, however

Etymology 1
aurum:.

Etymology 2
ha: hora:, alteration of hac: hora:.

Noun

 * 1) gold metal
 * 2) gold color

Descendants

 * French:

Noun

 * 1) alder

Etymology
From ǫlr:, órir:

Alternative forms

 * older

Preposition

 * 1) out of

Etymology
From ór:

Noun

 * 1) origin

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) gold metal
 * 2) gold color
 * 3)  blond(e) color

Etymology
aurum:

Verb

 * 1) (they) might
 * fiindcă or avea ceva pe care noi nu-l avem, va trebui să așteptăm puțin
 * being that they might have something that we don't, we will need to wait a bit

Conjunction

 * 1) Before or until (only in certain senses)
 * It'll nae be lang or A gang ma holiday.- It'll not be long until/ before I go on holiday

Etymology
Possibly from a Northumbrian variant of foran, but this is not certain.

Noun

 * 1) hymn, incantation, petition, prayer

Etymology
Possibly from amar:. See òran:.

Noun

 * 1) a mite

Synonyms

 * kvalster

Noun

 * 1) wood

Etymology
From, with unexplained loss of initial */d/.

Noun

 * 1) wood

Etymology
From, with unexplained loss of initial */d/.