o'er
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[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: oar, ore; or (horse–hoarse merger); aw, awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); ower (one pronunciation of o'er)
Adverb
[edit]o'er (not comparable)
Preposition
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- (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,
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