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

From Anglo-Norman *eure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of 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 […]

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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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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Interlingue

Noun

ure

1. (chemistry) urea

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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

Determiner

ure

1. Alternative form of oure

References

• “our(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

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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)

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