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Yes. The word mure is a Scrabble US word. The word mure is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word mure is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

MURE,RUME,

3-letter words (8 found)

EMU,ERM,MEU,REM,RUE,RUM,UME,URE,

2-letter words (7 found)

EM,ER,ME,MU,RE,UM,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from mure according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of mure

mure umre mrue rmue urme rume muer umer meur emur uemr eumr mreu rmeu meru emru remu ermu urem ruem uerm eurm reum erum

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Definitions and meaning of mure

mure

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mjʊə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Noun

mure (plural mures)

  1. (obsolete) wall
  2. (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

Adjective

mure (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

Verb

mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)

  1. (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
  2. (archaic) To enclose or imprison within walls.
    • a. 1765, Bible, Joshua 10 (heading)
      The five kings are mured in a cave.

References

  • Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.

Anagrams

  • Meru

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuːrə/, [ˈmuːɐ]
  • Homophone: murer

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra, derived from the noun. Compare German mauern.

Verb

mure (imperative mur, infinitive at mure, present tense murer, past tense murede, perfect tense er/har muret)

  1. to build a wall, to lay bricks
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • murer
  • muret
  • mure inde

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mure c

  1. indefinite plural of mur

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *murëh.

Noun

mure (genitive mure, partitive muret)

  1. sorrow, woe, grief
  2. care, concern
  3. anxiety, distress

Declension

Derived terms

  • muretsema

Further reading

  • “mure”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “mure”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • mure in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /myʁ/
  • Homophones: mur, mûr, murs, mûrs, mûre, mures, mûres, murent

Verb

mure

  1. inflection of murer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Adjective

mure

  1. Alternative spelling of mûre

Anagrams

  • muer

Galician

Verb

mure

  1. inflection of murar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Noun

mure (plural mures)

  1. mouse
    Synonym: mus

Kari'na

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mɨjere; compare Trió mïjere, Wayana mujele, Pemon murei.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [muːɺ̢e]

Noun

mure (possessed murery)

  1. bench, stool

References

  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 321
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “mure”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 307; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎[2], Paris, 1956, page 299

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.re/, [ˈmuːrɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.re/, [ˈmuːre]

Noun

mūre

  1. ablative singular of mūs
  2. vocative singular of mūrus

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • meur, mewre, moyre

Etymology

From Old French meur, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mature.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miu̯r/

Adjective

mure

  1. grave, serious, modest
  2. (rare) mature, ripe

Related terms

  • demure

References

  • “mūre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

  • mur, mür

Etymology

From Old Saxon mūra, from Latin mūrus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːrə/, /myːrə/

Noun

mûre or mü̂re f

  1. wall

Usage notes

The form with /yː/ and the form with /uː/ existed next to each other.

Declension

Descendants

  • Dutch Low Saxon: mure
  • → Estonian: müür

References

  • "mûre" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra.

Verb

mure (present tense murer, past tense mura or murte, supine and past participle mura or murt)

  1. to mason

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ.

Noun

mure f or m (definite singular mura or muren, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)

  1. (botany) any plant of the potentilla family
    Synonym: potentilla

References

  • “mure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra.

Alternative forms

  • mura (a-infinitive)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²mʉː.rə/

Verb

mure (present tense murar, past tense mura, past participle mura, passive infinitive murast, present participle murande, imperative mure/mur)

  1. to mason
Derived terms
  • murar

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ. Akin to German Möhre (“carrot”).

Noun

mure f (definite singular mura, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)

  1. (botany) any plant of the potentilla family
    Synonym: potentilla

References

  • “mure” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mu‧re

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mur, from Latin mūrem, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. Cognate with Spanish mur and Romansh mieur.

Alternative forms

  • muro

Noun

mure m (plural mures)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) mouse
    Synonym: rato
Derived terms
  • murar
Related terms
  • morcego
  • murganho
  • musaranho
  • músculo

Etymology 2

Verb

mure

  1. inflection of murar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

mure

  1. inflection of murar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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