Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hoar
IPA transcription: [h'ɔɹ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
    Meaning: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime
    Meaning: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
Usage examples
  • On we pressed, crawling our little way across the Vast, upon whose hoar silence, from Eternity until then, Bootes only, and that Great Bear, had watched.