stour

[ stoor ]

noun

1. British Dialect.
   1. tumult; confusion.
   2. a storm.
2. British Dialect. blowing dust or a deposit of dust.
3. Archaic. armed combat; battle.
4. British Dialect. a time of tumult.

stour

¹

/ staʊə; stuːr /

noun

1. turmoil or conflict
2. dust; a cloud of dust

Stour

²

/ staʊə /

noun

1. Also calledGreat Stour a river in S England, in Kent, rising in the Weald and flowing N to the North Sea: separates the Isle of Thanet from the mainland
2. any of several smaller rivers in England

Word History and Origins

Origin of stour¹

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French estour battle < Germanic; akin to storm

Word History and Origins

Origin of stour¹

C14: from Old French estour armed combat, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German sturm storm

Example Sentences

He landed in the same neighbourhood as before, and advanced 12 miles inland to the river Stour before meeting with the islanders.

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I caught a beautiful fish weighing about eight or ten pounds, in the Hampshire Stour.

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The artist was never tired of saying that these soft pastoral landscapes in the Stour valley made him a painter.

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The spire of Honington is then seen on the left, and Shipston-on-Stour is entered.

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But none has more beauty than that which runs southward to Shipston-on-Stour.

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