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Mordor.

An area of peril, darkness, or evil, which people fear to visit or explore.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈmɔːdɔː(ɹ)/Received-Pronunciation/ˈmɔɹdɔɹ/General-American/ˈmoːdoː(ɹ)/Australia, New-Zealand

  1. An area of peril, darkness, or evil, which people fear to visit or explore.

  2. Russia.

    derogatory · slang
Where this word comes from

From Mordor, a bleak realm ruled by the dark lord Sauron, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth. Tolkien created the name in his constructed language Sindarin, from morn (“dark, black”) and dôr (“land”). Compare with Old English morþor (“murder”), murder, Greek μαυρός (mavrós, “dim”) and Latin mors (“death”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian Мо́рдор (Mórdor) or Russian Мо́рдор (Mórdor), both of those from English Mordor, alluding to it being the land of orcs.

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