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Zoar vs Hoar - What's the difference?

zoar | hoar |

As nouns the difference between zoar and hoar

is that zoar is a place of refuge; a sanctuary while hoar is a white or greyish-white colour.

As an adjective hoar is

of a white or greyish-white colour.

As a verb hoar is

(obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty.

zoar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place of refuge; a sanctuary.

    • Synonyms

    * haven * refuge * sanctuary ----

    hoar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A white or greyish-white colour.
    • (BDCADC)
  • Hoariness; antiquity.
  • * Burke
    • Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  • * Spenser
    • hoar waters
  • (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
  • * 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
    • This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
    Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
    Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
    Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms.
  • * Byron
    • old trees with trunks all hoar
  • (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
  • * 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
    • But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

    Derived terms

    * hoarfrost * hoary * hoared

    Related terms

    * haar * horehound

    See also

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
  • * 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
    • But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

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