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Webster 1913 Edition
Ort
Ort
(ôrt)
, Noun.
pl.
Orts
(ôrts)
. [Akin to LG.
ort
, ortels
, remnants of food, refuse, OFries. ort
, OD. oorete
, ooraete
; prob. from the same prefix as in E. or
deal + a word akin to eat
.] A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; – commonly used in the plural.
Milton.
Let him have time a beggar’s
orts
to crave. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Ort
ORT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Ort
Ort
German
Noun
Ort m (genitive Orts or Ortes, plural Orte or Örter)
Declension
Declension of Ort
Declension of Ort
Derived terms
Terms derived from Ort
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ort
English
Noun
ort (plural orts)
- (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.
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Translations
a scrap of leftover
Verb
ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)
- (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.
Anagrams
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *uzdaz, whence Old English ord, Old Norse oddr
Noun
ort m
- sharp point
Descendants
- German: Ort
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔr̴st/
Pronoun
ort
Derived terms
See also
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
ort c
- (inhabited) place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
- horizontal tunnel in a mine
Declension
Inflection of ort | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ort | orten | orter | orterna |
Genitive | orts | ortens | orters | orternas |
Derived terms
- (place): bostadsort, centralort, föedelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe