Meanings
ur1
ur2
- InternetabbreviationAbbreviation of your.
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2012, Jessica Burkhart, Popular, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 147
Ur3
- An ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq; modern Tell el-Muqayyar.
Ur4
- geographyA hypothetical early supercontinent which may have existed on Earth during the Archaean eon (3.1 billion years ago).
UR5
plural URs
- abbreviationinitialismhuman sciencesInitialism of underlying representation.
Origin
Ur · proper noun
- Sumerian𒋀𒀕𒆠
- EnglishUr
Ultimately from Sumerian 𒋀𒀕𒆠 (Urim).
More words from Sumerian
Full word history & related roots →Ur · proper noun
- GermanUrkontinent“original continent”
- EnglishUr
From German Urkontinent (“original continent”), taking the morpheme ur- (“original”).
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Rhymes with ur
Cite this entry
ur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ur
“ur.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ur. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ur,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ur.
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