lore

• (General American) enPR: lôr, IPA^(key): /lɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lô, IPA^(key): /lɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: lōr, IPA^(key): /lo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /loə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

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• Homophone: law (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Homophone: lure (in some accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

From Middle English lore, from Old English lār, from Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *laizō, from *laizijaną (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre, Swedish lära and Danish lære. See also learn.

lore (countable and uncountable, plural lores)

1. All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.

   the lore of the Ancient Egyptians

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     He to them calles and speakes, yet nought avayles;
     They heare him not, they have forgot his lore
     But go which way they list; their guide they have forelore.

2. The backstory created around a fictional universe.
   • 2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer‎:

     You might have stumbled upon discussions of Bloodborne's lore - there are plenty of discussions about Bloodborne's lore - which can be more than a little dense and, to the outsider, off-putting.

3. (obsolete) Workmanship.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     In her right hand a rod of peace shee bore,
     About the which two serpents weren wound;
     Entrayled mutually in lovely lore,
     And by the tailes together firmely bound […]

• → Russian: лор (lor)
• → Ukrainian: лор (lor)

From Latin lorum (“thong, strap”).

lore (plural lores)

1. (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
   • 2022, Jim Crace, eden, Picador, page 40:

     He’s sticky and encrusted on one side below his beak and amongst the lores around his eyes by the pips and juices he has dined upon, the pith and pulp of feeding.

2. (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

• loral, loreal
• lored

lore

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of lose
2. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of lose, used in the sense of "left"
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44:

     Neither of them she found where she them lore.

3. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of lese

• Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, orle, relo, Roel, role, rôle

From Latin flos, florem.

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• IPA^(key): /loɾe/ [lo.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -oɾe
• Hyphenation: lo‧re

lore inan

1. flower

• "lore" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “lore” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

From lor (“at the time of, at the same time as”) +‎ -e (“adverb”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.re/, /ˈlɔ.ɾɛ/

lore

1. (demonstrative adverb) then, at the time

   Ilu forsis la chefa pordo, iris trans la longa vestibulo e lore apertis la pordo dil koqueyo.

   He forced the main door, went through the long hall, and then opened the door of the kitchen.

• lora (“then, now”)

• ita (“that (person)”)
• ito (“that (thing)”)
• iti (“that (plural)”)
• pro ito (“therefore”)
• ibe (“there”)
• tala (“such kind of”)
  • tale (“thus”)
• tanta (“so much”)

From Old English lār, from Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *laizō

The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique cases, while forms with /ɛː/ are influenced by leren (“to teach”).

• lar, lare, layre, lere, leyre, loore
• lære, leore, loare (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːr(ə)/, /ˈlɛːr(ə)/
• (early) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːr(ə)/, /ˈlɛːr(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /laːr/, /lɛːr/

lore (plural lores)

1. Education or teaching; the provision of knowledge.
2. Studying or learning; the absorption of knowledge.
3. Knowledge or information, especially:
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:

     And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… …taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto… And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”

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   1. Doctrine; a tenet or the tenets of a religion or science.
   2. A topic or field of research; a discipline.
   3. (rare) Competence or proficiency; one's skill in a discipline.
4. A directive, instruction, or set of them:
   1. An admonition or exhortation; a fervent plea.
   2. A conduct or conducts; guidance.
5. (rare) Significance, value, or importance.
6. (rare) A tale or narrative.

• English: lore
  • → Russian: лор (lor)
  • → Ukrainian: лор (lor)
• Scots: lare, lair

• “lōr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

From Old English lor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːr(ə)/

lore

1. Loss; the act of losing something, especially soldiers in battle.
2. Ruin, destruction, or injury.

• “lōre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

Borrowed from English lorry, compare Farefare loore.

IPA^(key): /ló.ɾè/

lore (plural loaya)

1. vehicle
2. car, automobile

• (vehicle): mobilli
• (vehicle): zirga

lore m (possessive, plural)

1. theirs