Yore
noun
Time long in the past.
Tales of yore are often shared by grandparents to their grandchildren.
Often appears as...
- days of yore
- tales of yore
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Formal
Literary
noun
Time long in the past.
Tales of yore are often shared by grandparents to their grandchildren.
Often appears as...
- days of yore
- tales of yore
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Flavor
Indicates a romanticized or nostalgic view of the historical past, often used in storytelling or fantasy.
The knights of yore valiantly defended the kingdom.
Pro Tip 2/3Poetic Language
Frequently found in poetry or literature to add a lyrical or elegant tone to the text.
In the golden light of yore, the poets found their muse.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaic Context
Used to evoke a bygone era. It's less common in modern day-to-day language.
The customs of yore seem quaint to us now.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Flavor
Indicates a romanticized or nostalgic view of the historical past, often used in storytelling or fantasy.
The knights of yore valiantly defended the kingdom.
Pro Tip 2/3Poetic Language
Frequently found in poetry or literature to add a lyrical or elegant tone to the text.
In the golden light of yore, the poets found their muse.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaic Context
Used to evoke a bygone era. It's less common in modern day-to-day language.
The customs of yore seem quaint to us now.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Flavor
Indicates a romanticized or nostalgic view of the historical past, often used in storytelling or fantasy.
The knights of yore valiantly defended the kingdom.
Pro Tip 2/3Poetic Language
Frequently found in poetry or literature to add a lyrical or elegant tone to the text.
In the golden light of yore, the poets found their muse.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaic Context
Used to evoke a bygone era. It's less common in modern day-to-day language.
The customs of yore seem quaint to us now.
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Reimagining Dinosaurs...
right yeah the team the team effort is a big thing as you start to use all these different instruments that are in different countries and you have to work work as a team a lot more than maybe some paleontologists you know of days of yore a long time ago ever had
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The power to think ahead...
What we need to make better decisions about the future are tools that can aid our foresight, tools that can help us think ahead. Think of these as something like the telescopes that ship captains of yore used when they scanned the horizon.
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Reimagining Dinosaurs...
right yeah the team the team effort is a big thing as you start to use all these different instruments that are in different countries and you have to work work as a team a lot more than maybe some paleontologists you know of days of yore a long time ago ever had
Video examples
The power to think ahead...
What we need to make better decisions about the future are tools that can aid our foresight, tools that can help us think ahead. Think of these as something like the telescopes that ship captains of yore used when they scanned the horizon.
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Frank Deford
American Writer
In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at last. Today, however, Opening Day sort of dribbles into existence, and the spiritual start of spring now belongs to the Masters golf tournament, where the azaleas and magnolias and dogwood bloom.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
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Maria Konnikova
American Writer
While today's fraternities are hardly the literary- and debate-inspired groups of yore, their core mission - or, at the least, their ideal core mission and the one touted loudly in their public chapter and promotional materials - remains largely unchanged.
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Mary Pilon
American Journalist
Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app's filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble the Polaroids of yore by casting them literally in a different, more nostalgic light.
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Henry Austin Dobson
English Poet
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
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Homaro Cantu
American Inventor
Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.
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Evan Bayh
American Politician
While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Frank Deford
American Writer
In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at last. Today, however, Opening Day sort of dribbles into existence, and the spiritual start of spring now belongs to the Masters golf tournament, where the azaleas and magnolias and dogwood bloom.
Quote examples
James Wolcott
American Critic
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
Quote examples
Maria Konnikova
American Writer
While today's fraternities are hardly the literary- and debate-inspired groups of yore, their core mission - or, at the least, their ideal core mission and the one touted loudly in their public chapter and promotional materials - remains largely unchanged.
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Mary Pilon
American Journalist
Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app's filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble the Polaroids of yore by casting them literally in a different, more nostalgic light.
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Henry Austin Dobson
English Poet
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
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Homaro Cantu
American Inventor
Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.
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Evan Bayh
American Politician
While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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