- any naturally occurring mineral or aggregate of minerals from which economically important constituents, esp metals, can be extracted
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ore /ɔr/USA pronunciation
n.
Ore., an abbreviation of:
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Mineralogya metal-bearing mineral that can be mined at a profit, or a mineral or natural product serving as a source of some nonmetallic substance, as sulfur: [uncountable]searching for iron ore.[countable]different ores.
Ore., an abbreviation of:
- Place NamesOregon.
ore
(ôr, ōr),USA pronunciation n.
ö•re (œ′rə),USA pronunciation n., pl. ö•re.
Ore.,
- Mineralogya metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- Mineralogya mineral or natural product serving as a source of some nonmetallic substance, as sulfur.
- bef. 900; conflation of Middle English ore, Old English ōra ore, unreduced metal; and Middle English or(e) ore, metal, Old English ār brass, cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German ēr, Old Norse eir, Gothic aiz; compare Latin aes bronze, coin, money
ö•re (œ′rə),USA pronunciation n., pl. ö•re.
- Currencya bronze coin of Norway, the 100th part of a krone.
- a zinc or bronze coin of Denmark, the 100th part of a krone.
- Currencya bronze coin of Sweden, the 100th part of a krona.
- a fractional currency of the Faeroe Islands, the 100th part of a krona.
- Latin aureus a gold coin
- 1600–10
Ore.,
- Place NamesOregon.
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ore /ɔː/ n
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öre /ˈørə/ n ( pl öre)
- a Scandinavian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a Swedish krona and (øre) one hundredth of a Danish and Norwegian krone
'ore' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Andes
- Appalachian Mountains
- assay
- band
- bank
- bauxite
- Birmingham
- blast furnace
- bonanza
- Brazil
- cadmium
- calx
- Carpathian Mountains
- chalcopyrite
- Chile
- cob
- cobalt
- crosscut
- crush
- cupriferous
- face
- flotation
- fluorite
- fluorspar
- galena
- gangue
- Hamersley Range
- horse
- hutch
- Immingham
- ironstone
- jig
- Kalgoorlie
- Katanga
- krona
- Kuznetsk Basin
- lead
- ledge
- Liberia
- lode
- Lorraine
- malm
- Mauritania
- Melilla
- Minas Gerais
- mine
- mineral
- mineralize
- mineralizer
- Minnesota