hoar英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A white or greyish-white colour.
Hoariness; antiquity.

— His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

动词 v.

To become mouldy or musty. intransitive,obsolete

— But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

形容词 adj.

Of a white or greyish-white colour. not-comparable

— So forth they rowèd; and that ferryman / With his stiff oars did brush the sea so strong, / That the hoar waters from his frigate ran, / And the light bubbles danced all along. / Whiles the salt brine out of the billows sprong.
Hoarily bearded. not-comparable,poetic

— And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.
Musty; mouldy; stale. not-comparable,obsolete

— But a hare that is hoar Is too much for a score When it hoars ere it be spent.
Figuratively, grey or grey-haired with age; ancient, venerable. archaic,not-comparable

— Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.

词形变化

hoars present,singular,third-person hoaring participle,present hoared participle,past hoared past

词汇关系

近义词

ancientness oldhood

衍生词

Hoar Cross hoared hoarfrosted hoarfrost hoar frost hoarhead hoarness hoarwithy hoary

词源

词源 1

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

词源 2

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

词源 3

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).