Ure in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Ure

You can make 6 words from 'ure' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'ure'
• 2 letters words from 'ure'

3 letters words from 'ure'

RUE 3

URE 3

2 letters words from 'ure'

ER 2	RE 2
UR 2

Definitions and meaning of ure

ure

Etymology 1

From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre and opera.

Noun

ure (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, only in collocations in ure, out of ure) use, practise, exercise.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 2,^[1]

     I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre

   • c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 17, p. 248,^[2]

     But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre

     That lies in vs;

   • 1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 ^[3]

     ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure

Derived terms

• inure

Verb

ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,^[4]

     […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]

Etymology 2

From Latin ūrus. Perhaps a doublet of owre.

Noun

ure (plural ures) (rare)

1. Synonym of aurochs

Usage notes

Ure-ox is more common; compare aurochs (ultimately from Old High German ūrohso, from ūro (“aurochs”) + ohso (“ox”)).

Related terms

• aurochs, owre (perhaps related)
• urus

Anagrams

• ERU, EUR, Eur., Rue, eur-, eur., rue

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈy.rə/

Noun

ure

1. plural of uur

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Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ùꜛɾé/

Noun

ure (Kana spelling ウレ)

1. (anatomy) foot

   Synonym: cikiri

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Ambai

Alternative forms

• uren
• ureŋ

Noun

ure

1. eye

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Danish

Noun

ure n

1. indefinite plural of ur

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Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ure

1. fire

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Japanese

Romanization

ure

1. Rōmaji transcription of うれ

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Latin

Verb

ūre

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ūrō

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman *ure (compare continental Old French uevre), from Latin opera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiu̯r(ə)/

Noun

ure (uncountable)

1. (usually with in) use, habit, custom

Descendants

• English: ure

References

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

Etymology 2

Noun

ure

1. Alternative form of eure

Etymology 3

Determiner

ure

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

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Old English

Alternative forms

• ūser – Northumbrian or poetic

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuː.re/

Determiner

ūre

1. our

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: oure
  • English: our
    • Northumbrian: wor, oor
  • Scots: oor, wir

Pronoun

ūre

1. genitive of wē: ours, of us

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Rapa Nui

Noun

ure

1. penis

Usage notes

Largely considered archaic; replaced by a Tahitian term.

Source: wiktionary.org

• in heraldry, pointed, with a pattern of points.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)