Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: boar
IPA transcription: [b'ɔɹ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: boar
    Meaning: an uncastrated male hog
  • Synonyms: wild_boar, boar, Sus_scrofa
    Meaning: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States
Usage examples
  • are dreadful, and 'his brains festooned the thorn' is not a very happy way of telling the reader how the boar died.
  • One day the Prince went out hunting, and going in pursuit of a wild boar he soon lost the other huntsmen, and found himself quite alone in the middle of a dark wood.
  • Hadji is a wonderful Arab horse that a reckless hunter rides to death in the pursuit of a wild boar, and the moral of the poem--for there is a moral--seems to be that an absorbing passion is a very dangerous thing and blunts the human sympathies.
  • And when he looked beneath it, on the ground lay a sword of bronze, with a hilt of glittering gold, and by it a pair of golden sandals; and he caught them up, and burst through the bushes like a wild boar, and leapt to his mother, holding them high above his head.
  • Let me have some eggs, a piece of wild boar, and such and such roots and herbs for the soup; and as for the dumplings,' he added in a low voice to the head cook, 'I shall want four different kinds of meat, some wine, a duck's marrow, some ginger, and a herb called heal-well.'