YORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yore mean? 

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

1. time long past

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time long past

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

past; past times; yesteryear (the time that has elapsed)

 Context examples 

Yet the beer seemed not so good as of yore.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Also the Old Soldier, on a considerably reduced footing, and by no means so influential as in days of yore!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When we accosted him, his manner was something more confused, and something less genteel, than of yore.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I heard a heavy puffing and blowing coming towards us, and soon Mr. Omer, shorter-winded than of yore, but not much older-looking, stood before me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I parted from them at the wicket-gate, where visionary Strap had rested with Roderick Random's knapsack in the days of yore; and, instead of going straight back, walked a little distance on the road to Lowestoft.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived—and I was touched by it—with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)