Definitions for: Yore


[n] the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"



Webster (1913) Definition: Yore (y[=o]r), adv. [OE. [yogh]ore, yare, [yogh]are, AS.
ge['a]ra;akin to ge['a]r a year, E. year. [root]204. See
Year.]
In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic]

As it hath been of olde times yore. --Chaucer.

Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, Yet I to
them for judgment just do fly. --Spenser.

Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of
yore. ``But Satan now is wiser than of yore.'' --Pope.

Where Abraham fed his flock of yore. --Keble.

Synonyms: past, past times, yesteryear

Antonyms: future, futurity, hereafter, time to come

See Also: auld langsyne, bygone, history, langsyne, old, old times, the good old days, time, time immemorial, time out of mind, water under the bridge, yesterday

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