Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A point.
- n. Beginning.
- n. An abbreviation of ordinal, ordinance, ordinary, and order.
- n. An abbreviation of ordained;
- n. of ordnance.
Wiktionary
- abbr. order.
- abbr. law ordinance.
- n. A point.
- n. A point of origin; a beginning.
- n. A point of land; a promontory.
- n. The point or edge of a weapon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. An edge or point; also, a beginning.
Etymologies
- From Middle English ord, from Old English ord ("point, spear-point, spear, source, beginning, front, vanguard"), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to stick, prick, pierce, sting”) + Proto-Indo-European *dʰe- (“to set, place”). Cognate with North Frisian od ("tip, place, beginning"), Dutch oord ("place, region"), German Ort ("location, place, position"), Danish od ("a point"), Swedish udd ("a point, prick"), Icelandic oddur ("tip, point of a weapon, leader"). See also odd. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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““Mrs. Ward, and ladies, what means this extr'ord'n'ry demonstration?””
“You may depend upon it I shall only stay here to the end of the month: but if you should want me sooner, I will set out at a moment's warning, on your sending me a line by Lord Rochf'ord's courier.”
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“No more they don't, unless summat extr'ord'ny has taken the weather.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ord’.
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oakum, oakus, oast, obambulate, obdormition, obduracy, obedible, obedientiary, obeism, obeliscolychny, obelize, obelus and 504 more...
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Foreign Words
The word 'word' in other languages.
mot, woord, logos, palabra, Wort, слово, parola, 詞, kelime, zabda, slovo, ord and 9 more...
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WORDNIK - words found in "Wordnik"
kino, din, dink, dirk, do, don, dor, dork, dow, down, drink, drown and 54 more...
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precious
coin, waiflike, zoo, captain, difference, diet, automagical, olive, noanoa, dusk, cookie, monday and 221 more...
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Luggage Tags
Significant airport codes.
bwi, ord, dfw, dlh, atl, hnl, ind, jax, jfk, mci, lga, bos and 79 more...
Tweets
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