Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A routine or minor duty or task. See Synonyms at task.
- n. Daily or routine domestic tasks, especially a farmer's routine morning and evening tasks, such as feeding livestock.
- n. An unpleasant or burdensome task.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A char, chare, or small job; a task; especially, a piece of minor domestic work, as about a house or barn, of regular or frequent recurrence: generally in the plural.
- Same as char, 5.
- n. Same as chare.
- n. A chorus; a choir.
Wiktionary
- v. UK, informal To steal.
- n. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
- n. obsolete A choir or chorus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. United States A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
- v. United States To do chores.
- n. obsolete A choir or chorus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
Etymologies
- Possibly derived from the Romani word chōr ("thief"), see also Geordie word chor. (Wiktionary)
- Variant of char3. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word chore connotes tedium, but that was not how I felt about them.”
“And the reason why it's a chore is not JUST because I'm lazy and shy; it, usually, also has to do with the second point above: A lot of times, people at campaign events (especially in Iowa and NH) are semi-pro campaign-event goers (or, as some articles last month had it, "political tourists").”
“Next to each chore is a box that the child can check off when they have completed their task.”
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“Nagi decides her next chore is to master shopping.”
“I'm also crocheting a ton of snowflakes and today's chore is to spray them liberally with starch to stiffen them up, then I'll attatch a little string and voila!”
“Sternberg says his biggest chore is to make sure the community and surrounding areas know we care about them.”
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“Ferry's main chore in Cleveland will be building a supporting cast around James, who was the only Cavs player at the news conference.”
“Rachel - who had previously felt attending Hebrew school a "chore" - came home from her first day and pronounced, "I want to go to Hebrew school everyday.”
“Lack of credibility isn’t subject to “proof,” when the chore is to prove a negative.”
“But the most time-consuming part of the chore is the transfer between baths.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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TT1 Lesson 2
date, may, chore, finish, put off, inspect, permission, interrupt, tie, untie, trip, control and 10 more...
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