English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Result for -or
-or
A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error,
fervor, pallor, candor, etc.
-or
A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who
hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to
-ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of
English, origin. See -er.