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say it: TAW-ree
tory is a noun meaning "an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution". It carries 3 recorded senses.
an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution
a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs
a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative
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 tory 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.