YORE

yore

(noun) time long past

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

yore (uncountable)

(poetic) a time long past.

Usage notes

A fossil; virtually unused outside the phrase of yore, especially the idiom days of yore.

Synonyms

• foretime, yestertide; see also the past

Adverb

yore (not comparable)

(obsolete) In time long past; long ago.

Synonyms

• long since, of old; see also long ago

Anagrams

• Roye, oyer, yero

Source: Wiktionary


Yore, adv. Etym: [OE. , yare, , AS. geára;akin to geár a year, E. year. Year.]

Definition: In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic] As it hath been of olde times yore. Chaucer. Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, Yet I to them for judgment just do fly. Spenser. Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of yore. "But Satan now is wiser than of yore." Pope. Where Abraham fed his flock of yore. Keble.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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