o'er
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) enPR: ôr, ōʹər, IPA(key): /ɔɹ/, /ˈoʊ.ɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔː/, /ˈəʊ.ə/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ōr, IPA(key): /o(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /oə/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones:
- (in some rhotic and non-rhotic accents): oar, or, ore
- (in some non-rhotic accents): aw, awe
- (one pronunciation): ower
Adverb[edit]
o'er (not comparable)
Preposition[edit]
o'er
- (literary) Contraction of over
- 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way :
- We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew,
The shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.
- We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew,