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say it: awr
ore is a noun meaning "a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined". It is pronounced /ˈɔɹ/ — awr. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ore come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.