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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
A. Scott Berg

Meaning of "dour" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DOUR

Probably from Latin dūrus hard.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DOUR

dour  [dʊə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dour is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dour

Dour

Coordinates: 50°24′N 03°47′E / 50.400°N 3.783°E / 50.400; 3.783Coordinates: 50°24′N 03°47′E / 50.400°N 3.783°E / 50.400; 3.783 Country Belgium Community French Community Region Wallonia Province Hainaut Arrondissement Mons Government • Mayor Carlo Di Antonio • Governing party/ies cdH, MR Area • Total 33.32 km2 Population • Total 16,921 • Density 510/km2 Postal codes 7370 Area codes 065 Website www.communedour.be Dour is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 km², giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per km². Since 1989 Dour has hosted the annual Dour Festival, an alternative music festival. Dour is often considered the western end of the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia.

Definition of dour in the English dictionary

The definition of dour in the dictionary is sullen. Other definition of dour is hard or obstinate.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOUR

doula
doulocracy
doum palm
douma
doun
Dounreay
doup
doupioni
douppioni
doura
dourah
dourine
dourly
dourness
Douro
douroucouli
douse
douser
dout

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOUR

amour
behaviour
colour
flour
four
glamour
guest of honour
happy hour
harbour
honour
hour
humour
labour
our
pour
retour
sense of humour
sour
tour
your

Synonyms and antonyms of dour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DOUR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dour» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dour

Translation of «dour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DOUR

Find out the translation of dour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dour» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

阴沉的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hosco
570 millions of speakers

English

dour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेदर्द
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عنيد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

суровый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

austero
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুর্দমনীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

austère
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dour
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verdrießlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

気難しい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뚱한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Duka
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghiêm khắc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடுமையான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Dour
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aksi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

austero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Dour
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

суворий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Dour
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατηφής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dour
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dour
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dyster
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dour

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DOUR»

The term «dour» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.502 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DOUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dour

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5 QUOTES WITH «DOUR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dour.
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A. Scott Berg
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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David Blunkett
If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.
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Jo Durie
The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.
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Damon Lindelof
I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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Frank Rich
'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOUR»

Discover the use of dour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hey You!: A Portrait of Youssou N'Dour
Biografi med sangtekster.
Jenny Cathcart, 1989
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The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete ...
Moreover, the phrase is obsolete in French, which makes the Frenchif1ed pronunciation an ostentatious waste of time. dour DOOR (rhymes with poor, tour, and lure) or DUUR (UU as in book and took, so that the word almost rhymes with stir or ...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2006
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Dour an dirtyhouse aw Cl8.l'ly,ANDERSON Ballads (ed. 1881) 137; Cum} n.Yks.1 ; n.Yks.2 He looked as dour as thunner. n.Lin. She's strange and dour. I wonder you're not scared to be with her by your sen at darklins, PEACOCK R. Skirlaugh ...
Joseph Wright, 1898
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Publications
Elen dour of John Davis of Griston bap : ye 19 day of July. Thomas son of Mathew Rathmell of Hebden bap : ye 20 day of July. Robert son of Wilim Ibbotson of Griston bap : ye 16 day August. Liddea dour of Martin Wilson of Linton bap : ye 27 ...
Yorkshire Parish Register Society, Leeds, 1900
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The Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society
Elen dour of John Davis of Griston bap : ye 19 day of July. Thomas son of Mathew Rathmell of Hebden bap : ye 20 day of July. Robert son of Wilim Ibbotson of Griston bap : ye 16 day August. Liddea dour of Martin Wilson of Linton bap : ye 27 ...
Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1900
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The Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society
1702: Christnings 1702. Elen dour of John Davis of Griston bap : ye 19 day of July. Thomas son of Mathew Rathmell of Hebden bap : ye 20 day of July. Robert son of Wilim Ibbotson of Griston bap : ye 16 day August. Liddea dour of Martin ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
10; Dinnct lcnk dour it us, 'cnws aw's black, RonsoN Sng. Sol. (1859) i. 6; thJ, Dur. I Cum. Donran dirty— house aw clarty, ANDERSON Ballads (rd. 1881) 137: Cum. l 11.Yks.l; n.Yks.2 He looked as dour as thnnner. n.Lln. She's strange and dour.
Joseph Wright
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The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary: In Nine Volumes
Ther was at Dour afore theEdification of theManer «called Blak Berat s Haulle. The Lordihipe felfe of Emis Harold, wher it is naroweft, is a Myle in Bredthe, and mofte in Lengthe z. Mile. It hath good Corne, Greffe and Woode. Dowr Abbay vi.
John Leland, Thomas Hearne, 1744
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The itinerary of John Leland, publ. by T. Hearne, To which ...
Ther was at Dour afore the Edification of the Manerecalled Blak Berats Haulle. The Lordihipe felfe of Ewis Harold, wher it is naroweft, is a Myle in Bredthe, and mofte in Lengthe 2. Mile. It hath good Corne, Greffe and Woode. Dowr Abbay vi.
John Leland, Thomas Hearne, 1769
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The Itinerary ...
The Broke of Dour runneth by the Abbay of Dour, and there it brekethe a litle above the Monasterie into 2. Armes, whereof the leste Arme rennethe thorowghe the Monastery. The bygger Arme levith the Abbey a Bowe shot of on the right Hond ...
John Leland, 1769

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dour is used in the context of the following news items.
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tix on sale: Oddball tour, Youssou N'dour, JAMC, Odesza, King …
Senegalese singer/percussionist Youssou N'dour is playing Terminal 5 on November 1. Tickets for that show go on AmEx and Ticketmaster ... «Brooklyn Vegan, Jul 15»
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RIP Irwin Keyes, character actor from The Jeffersons and Intolerable …
Keyes also dabbled in voice acting, and will be best remembered by a certain segment of fans as the dour bigfoot Bruno from LucasArts' classic ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jul 15»
3
Capturing momentum
Freo's 36-point win over Brisbane last Sunday was a dour affair due largely to persistent rain until three quarter time. In the space of a few ... «Fremantle Dockers, Jul 15»
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Iraq: Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Conflict-Affected Cities
... a five-year period in two conflict-affected governorates, Salah Al-Din and Diyala, covering seven cities: Tikrit, Dour, Al Dalooeyya, Al-Alam, ... «World Bank Group, Jul 15»
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Joe Root digs England team out of a hole in Cardiff
Root was daring; Ballance was dour and determined before missing a straight ball from Josh Hazlewood. That brought in the Durham biffer Ben ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
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City residents 'take less time to get over grief'
It's the city with a reputation for being dour and reserved – more likely to assume you've had your tea than to offer you any. Now the old ... «Edinburgh Evening News, Jul 15»
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All Blacks veterans targeted as international media question ageing …
The Guardian believed the match itself didn't match the occasion. "It fizzled – a dour albeit tense contest with the All Blacks scraping home. «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
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Vacation Bible School: The Untold Story | TYRADES!
Week in and week out, some of the more dour congregations can make an impressionable youngster feel like the hapless Charlie Brown. «Bainbridge Island Review, Jul 15»
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Lydia Sylvia, 'Chasing The Ghost'
“Twin Sisters,” meanwhile, doesn't have to use words to create its dour atmosphere, its shadowy string work adding all the vibe that's needed to ... «Frederick News Post, Jul 15»
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Can China's market crash be contained?
Thanks in part to the unnerving global news flow, the American investor mood is far more dour than one would expect given the relatively small ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»

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