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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. Variant of uro-1.
  2. Variant of uro-2.
  3. Original; prototypical: ur-feminist; ur-language.

Wiktionary

  1. Forming words with the sense of ‘proto-, primitive, original’.

Etymologies

  1. From German ur-, original; see Ursprache.

Examples

  • “And Mr. Buckner's best-known moment—a game-ending fielding error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, after which his Red Sox lost to the Mets in Game 7—can be seen as sort of the ur-"Larry David moment.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Showing His Enthusiasm

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