HOAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hoar mean? 

• HOAR (noun)
  The noun HOAR has 1 sense:

1. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

  Familiarity information: HOAR used as a noun is very rare.

• HOAR (adjective)
  The adjective HOAR has 1 sense:

1. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

  Familiarity information: HOAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

frost; hoar; hoarfrost; rime

Hypernyms ("hoar" is a kind of...):

ice; water ice (water frozen in the solid state)

• HOAR (adjective)

Comparative: hoarer   
Superlative: hoarest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

Synonyms:

gray; gray-haired; gray-headed; grey; grey-haired; grey-headed; grizzly; hoar; hoary; white-haired

Context example:

nodded his hoary head

Similar:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

 Context examples 

There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I smell the fog that hung about the place; I see the hoar frost, ghostly, through it; I feel my rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dim perspective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here and there to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of the boys wreathing and smoking in the raw cold as they blow upon their fingers, and tap their feet upon the floor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)