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ort.

locality, place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/ʊʈː/
  1. locality, place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)

    common-gender
  2. adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)

    common-gender
  3. clipping of förort (“suburb; smaller urban area in close proximity to a larger city”, literally “pre-locality”) Chiefly a suburb; sometimes a neighbourhood or local area.

    colloquial · common-gender · definite · often
  4. clipping of förort (“suburb; smaller urban area in close proximity to a larger city”, literally “pre-locality”) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.

    broadly · common-gender
    ortenmode
    ortensvenska
Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German ort, from Old Saxon ord, from Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“sharp point, place”). Cognate with Middle English ord, North Frisian od (“tip, place, beginning”), Dutch oord (“place, region”), German Ort (“location, place, position”), Danish od (“a point”), Swedish udd (“a point, prick”), Icelandic oddur (“tip, point of a weapon, leader”).

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