Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Fiery intensity of feeling. See Synonyms at passion.
- n. Strong enthusiasm or devotion; zeal: "The dazzling conquest of Mexico gave a new impulse to the ardor of discovery” ( William Hickling Prescott).
- n. Intense heat or glow, as of fire.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Intense heat: as, the ardor of the sun's rays.
- n. In pathology, a feeling of heat or burning.
- n. A bright or effulgent spirit.
- n. Warmth or heat, as of the passions and affections; eagerness; intensity.
- n. Synonyms Fervor, fervency, vehemence, intensity, impetuosity.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Heat, in a literal sense.
- n. Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal.
- n. Thus used by Milton. Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim.
WordNet 3.0
- n. intense feeling of love
- n. a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
- n. feelings of great warmth and intensity
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman ardour, from Latin ardor, from ardere ("to burn"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English ardour, from Old French, from Latin ārdor, from ārdēre, to burn; see as- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“In both, they seem to compete with us, and in ardor and activity they even surpass most of our savans.”
“Death’s ardor is returned by a young woman who must decide, as the end of his stay nears, whether love is stronger than death.”
“He made Jerry Lee Lewis's panting musical rants of wolf-calling ardor look like a Sunday Comics installment of January Jones.”
“He gestured to the space between them, as if their ardor were a tangible entity.”
“Her ardor was a trifle dampened by his voice, but she found new thrills in the gas-stove, a most dramatic instrument to play.”
“The seeds of my ardor were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled; I speak of the”
“Their ardor is their crown, before which the languid and the passive bow.”
“Whether because of the noise we made and their seeking safety in flight, or because they were off "taking holiday" {1} as the negroes claimed, no hares were found, and after a half-hour our ardor was a little dampened.”
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“I made barely eight miles, and my ardor was a good deal dampened, to say nothing about my clothing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ardor’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Classic
mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly and 401 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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501
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abhor, mirth, obtuse, iota, vex, irk, teem, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane and 401 more...
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501
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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GRE
droll, dyspeptic, ebullient, ardor, edify, efficacy, malinger, mannered, martinet, maudlin, mendacious, mendicant and 102 more...
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Latin
exempli gratia, deus ex machina, prolix, sisyphean, minatory, empyrean, cicatrix, demulcent, effulgence, emulsion, garum, ablative and 39 more...
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Franco
fin-de-siècle, sang-froid, minatory, loup, son et lumière, bonhomie, l'heure bleue, frippery, pamplemousse, adieu, au revoir, visage and 22 more...
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Red Badge of Courage
purl, parallel, ardor, ethic, great, patriotism, shirk, picket, dreg, skedaddle, imitative
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position (dynamic)
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charismatic, lively, animated, shifting, permeate, wobble, shimmer, sparkle, flex, pizzazz, chaos, fractal and 42 more... -
Poetic
the blue hour, dinner-pail, long-drawn, pettifog, spoonmeat, crawler, eructate, voiced, medial, tessellated, eyeballs, amphigory and 48 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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trace
utum, diorite, Mandelbrot, uropygium, bravura, vulpine, vervain, burdock, souse, shantay, legume, sinew and 26 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1907 more...
Tweets
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Teneo I was surprised by his religious ardor, for he spoke as if fighting an army, but controlled as if holding a child. His ardor proclaimed his dominance, and he was never to be questioned again. He sleeps now, his ardor restrained, but it fights against the chains as the sun races his spirit to reach the beginning of a new day. Mar 20, 2011
Noelle Knight "He'd seen me kill her, right in front of his eyes. Granted, she'd betrayed and tortured him, and that should have doused his ardor, right there." -Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris Feb 5, 2011