Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- [awrk]
- /ɔrk/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [awrk]
- /ɔrk/
Definitions of orc word
- noun orc any of several cetaceans, as a grampus. 1
- noun orc a mythical monster, as an ogre. 1
- noun orc (in fantasy literature and games) a member of an imaginary race of humanlike creatures, characterized as ugly, warlike, and malevolent. 1
- noun orc mythical monster 1
- noun orc any of various whales, such as the killer and grampus 0
- noun orc one of an imaginary race of evil goblins, esp in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien 0
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Origin of orc
First appearance:
before 1510 One of the 26% oldest English words
First recorded in 1510-20, orc is from the Latin word orca
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Parts of speech for Orc
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
orc popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
orc usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for orc
noun orc
- mammal — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
- porpoise — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- baleen — whalebone
- beluga — a large white sturgeon, Acipenser (or Huso) huso, of the Black and Caspian Seas: a source of caviar and isinglass
- cetacean — Cetaceans are animals such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
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