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Definition: STOUR |
STOURAdjective1. Tall; strong; stern. Noun1. A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion. |
Date "STOUR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Stour is a river in Warwickshire. It joins the Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "River Stour, Warwickshire."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Stour is the name of several rivers in England:
- River Stour, East Anglia
- River Stour, Warwickshire
- River Stour, Kent. The source rivers are: River East Stour, River West Stour, River Great Stour, River Little Stour.
- River Stour, Dorset
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stour."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disorder | Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STOUR |
| English words defined with "STOUR": Stowre. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STOUR": GuendolÅ"na ♦ reliquary. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STOUR": Stowre. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Barges on the Stour. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Water transport on the principal river systems, Thames, Severn, Trent, Stour, Humber and Avon, though not their navigable estuaries, and more than 2000 miles of canals is managed by a government-controlled company, British Waterways. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, short-ribs of the saints, the ears of Balaam's ass, the lung of the cock that called Peter to repentance and so forth. Reliquaries are commonly of metal, and provided with a lock to prevent the contents from coming out and performing miracles at unseasonable times. A feather from the wing of the Angel of the Annunciation once escaped during a sermon in Saint Peter's and so tickled the noses of the congregation that they woke and sneezed with great vehemence three times each. It is related in the "Gesta Sanctorum" that a sacristan in the Canterbury cathedral surprised the head of Saint Dennis in the library. Reprimanded by its stern custodian, it explained that it was seeking a body of doctrine. This unseemly levity so raged the diocesan that the offender was publicly anathematized, thrown into the Stour and replaced by another head of Saint Dennis, brought from Rome. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "STOUR" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "STOUR" is used about 196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 96.43% | 189 | 22,353 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.55% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.51% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.51% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 196 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "STOUR": Shipston-on-stour. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stour | 21 |
shipston on stour | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STOUR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | Luptã (action, affair, battle, combat, contest, efforts, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, match, mix up, quarrel, strife, striving, struggle, war, warfare), Ceartã (altercation, Bicker, bobbery, brawl, breeze, broil, conflict, contention, controversy, discord, discussion, dispute, dissension, friction, jangle, loggerhead, misunderstanding, quarrel, row, scrap, set to, squabble, squall, strife, tussle, wrangle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STOUR": stoure, stoures, stourie, stours, stoury. (additional references) | |
Words containing "STOUR": bistouries, bistoury. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: roust, routs, torus, tours. | |
| Words within the letters "o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: orts, ours, oust, outs, rots, rout, rust, ruts, sort, sour, tors, tour. | |
-2 letters: ors, ort, our, out, rot, rut, sot, sou, tor, uts. | |
-3 letters: or, os, so, to, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: courts, grouts, ouster, outers, robust, rousts, routes, rouths, souter, sprout, stoure, stours, stoury, stroud, stupor, suitor, torous, trouts, tumors, turbos, tussor, tutors. | |
+2 letters: authors, brulots, burbots, burtons, citrous, couters, detours, dourest, drouths, estrous, fourths, hotspur, jouster, nitrous, nostrum, obtuser, oestrum, oestrus, ousters, outrows, outruns, outrush, outsert, outsoar, outwars, petrous, posture, pouters, proteus, quartos, questor, quoters, ragouts, redouts, riotous, robusta, roquets, rostrum, rotguts, rousted, rouster, routers, rubatos, rubouts, runouts, santour, sautoir, scouter, scrotum, shouter, sourest, souters, souther, spouter, sprouts, stoures, stourie, stouter, strouds, stupors, suitors, support, surcoat, surtout, tabours, tenours, tonsure, torques, torulas, tourers, tourism, tourist, touters, troilus, troughs, troupes, trouser, trustor, tryouts, tsouris, tumours, turacos, turbots, turgors, turkois, turnons, tussore, tussors, unroots, uproots, yogurts. | |
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