moors
Because it is a word with a single syllable, moors is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofmoors
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
Example: "A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step."
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- To cast anchor or become fastened.
- To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
Example: "the vessel was moored in the stream"
- To secure or fix firmly.
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