Orr

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US/ɔɹ/

proper noun

A Scottish surname.

Less commonScrabble 3

Meanings

Orr1

proper noun
  1. A Scottish surname.

    Your God is a reproachful God. But guilt was not the way to get at George Orr; if he had been a man much given to guilt feelings he would not have lived to thirty.

    1971, Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe Of Heaven
  2. A place in the United States:

ORR2

nounORR (plural ORRs)

plural ORRs

  1. abbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of overall response rate or objective response rate.
proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Office of Rail and Road, a non-ministerial government department in the United Kingdom.

Rhymes & wordplay

Sounds the same

oaroreor (horse–hoarse merger)
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APA

Orr. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Orr

MLA

“Orr.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Orr. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Orr,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Orr.

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