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Is ure a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ure is a Scrabble US word. The word ure is worth 3 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word ure is a Scrabble UK word and has 3 points:

U1R1E1

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3-letter words (2 found)

RUE,URE,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from ure according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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ure rue uer eur reu eru

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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.
    • 1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 [2]
      ...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,[3]
      […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]

Etymology 2

From Middle French ure or its etymon Latin ūrus. Doublet of urus.

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 (perhaps related)
  • urus

Etymology 3

Contraction

ure

  1. (informal, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of you're (you are).

References

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈy.rə/

Noun

ure

  1. plural of uur

Ainu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ùꜛɾé/

Noun

ure (Kana spelling ウレ)

  1. (anatomy) foot
    Synonym: cikiri

Ambai

Alternative forms

  • uren
  • ureŋ

Noun

ure

  1. eye

Danish

Noun

ure n

  1. indefinite plural of ur

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ure

  1. fire

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

ure

  1. Rōmaji transcription of うれ

Latin

Verb

ūre

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of ūrō

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French ore, from Latin hora.

Noun

ûre ?

  1. hour

Descendants

  • Dutch: uur (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: oer
  • West Flemish: eure
  • → Middle Low German: ūr
    • Plautdietsch: Ua
    • → Danish: ur
    • → Middle High German: ūre
      • Alemannic German: Uur
      • Bavarian: Uah
      • Central Franconian: Uhr, Ouher
      • German: Uhr (see there for further descendants)
      • Luxembourgish: Auer
    • → Saterland Frisian: Uure
  • → West Frisian: oere

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”)

Old English

Alternative forms

  • ūser — Northumbrian, Mercian, or poetic
  • ūr, usser — Mercian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz. For development compare Old Norse órr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuː.re/

Determiner

ūre

  1. our

Declension

Descendants

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

Pronoun

ūre

  1. genitive of wē: ours, of us

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

ure

  1. locative singular of uras (“breast”)

Rapa Nui

Noun

ure

  1. penis

Usage notes

Largely considered archaic; replaced by a Tahitian term.

Rarotongan

Noun

ure

  1. penis

Yola

Determiner

ure

  1. Alternative form of oor

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ū.ɾè/

Noun

urè

  1. (Ekiti, zootomy) the thigh or leg of an animal; (especially) when cooked
    Synonym: tete

Zaghawa

Noun

ure

  1. valley, wadi

References

  • Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

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