gore

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)
  2. noun coagulated blood from a wound
  3. noun a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails

Etymology

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

Al Gore, Albert Gore Jr.

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