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" Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect."
George Boole

Meaning of "vigour" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VIGOUR

From Old French vigeur, from Latin vigor activity, from vigēre to be lively.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF VIGOUR

ˈvɪɡə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VIGOUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vigour is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VIGOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Vigour

Vigour is a venture-backed, privately held company that provides a web-based multiscreen framework to media companies. The company was founded in 2012 by friends Jim de Beer, Ramon Duivenvoorden and Marcus Besjes.

Definition of vigour in the English dictionary

The first definition of vigour in the dictionary is exuberant and resilient strength of body or mind; vitality. Other definition of vigour is substantial effective energy or force. Vigour is also forcefulness; intensity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VIGOUR

agar · bottega · configure · digger · figure · Geiger · jaeger · jager · ligger · maigre · nigger · omega · Ortega · outrigger · schlager · taiga · tiger · tigger · trigger · vinegar

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VIGOUR

vigilante · vigilantism · vigilantly · vigilantness · vigintillion · vigneron · vignette · vignetter · vignetting · vignettist · Vignola · Vigny · Vigo · vigorish · vigoro · vigoroso · vigorous · vigorously · vigorousness · vihara

WORDS THAT END LIKE VIGOUR

amour · behaviour · clangour · colour · four · glamour · harbour · honour · hour · humour · hybrid vigour · in vigour · labour · our · pour · retour · rigour · sense of humour · tour · your

Synonyms and antonyms of vigour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VIGOUR»

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

Translation of «vigour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VIGOUR

Find out the translation of vigour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of vigour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «vigour» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

活力
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

energía
570 millions of speakers
en

English

vigour
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

ताक़त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهمة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

энергичность
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

vigor
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

তেজ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

énergie
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Semangat
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Energie
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

精力
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

활력
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Semangat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sức sống
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வீரியம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

जोम
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

dinçlik
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

vigore
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

wigor
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

енергійність
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

vigoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευρωστία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

krag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vigör
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vigør
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vigour

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VIGOUR»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of vigour
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «vigour».

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

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7 QUOTES WITH «VIGOUR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word vigour.
1
William Banting
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
2
George Boole
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
3
Gavin Bryars
I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
4
Sigmar Gabriel
We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.
5
Damien Hirst
I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
6
Henry Cabot Lodge
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.
7
Ferdinand Mount
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIGOUR»

Discover the use of vigour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vigour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Vigour of Prophecy: A Study of Virgil's Aeneid
Elisabeth Henry argues that the interrelation of these different levels of awareness in the narrative is a major subject of the poem.
Elisabeth Henry, 1989
2
Chronic Vigour: Darwin, Anglicans, Catholics, and the ...
The book demonstrates how these clergymen came to endorse Darwinian biology as early as 1884 in Britain. It places the history of the principle of 'providential evolution' squarely in its English context. The book consists of five chapters.
Gregory P. Elder, 1996
3
Mourning Sarah: A Case for Testing Group B Strep
Shares the confusion, pain and devastation the author and her family experienced around the time of her daughter, Sarah's, birth and early death from potentially preventable group B strep infection.
Theresa Huttlinger Vigour, 2008
4
Strange Vigour - A Biography of Sun Yat-Sen
Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Bernard Martin, 2008
5
Preaching With Spiritual Vigour
It is one of the reasons why his ministry showed that spark of vitality that changed his surrounding community for the better. Murray Capill set out to discover Baxter's secret.
Murray A. Capill, Capil M. a., 2003
6
The Children of the Nation How Their Health and Vigour ...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
John E. Gorst, 2009
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Winterfell
He went on this way for some time and fannie communed with Den before she took Vigour's hand and entered his mind to help him make sense of what he was trying to communicate. fannie found no trace of the malevolence that she expected ...
Linda Fedun, 2010
8
Tropical Forest Seed
7.9.1 Vigour Test Standard germination tests indicate germination under a set of optimal germination conditions. These tests are unable to detect quality differences between seed lots which show a large discrepancy between germinability in ...
Lars H. Schmidt, 2007
9
Maize research for stress environments
ABSTRACT The study was carried out between 1986 and 1988 to investigate the relationships between flowering habit, plant phenotypic appearance, seedling vigour and grain yielding ability while breeding early maturing maize. Four rainfed ...
David C. Jewell, Waddington, S.R., Ransom, J.K., 1995
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Mood and Human Performance: Conceptual, Measurement, and ...
Univariate differences indicated that pre-competition Fatigue was significantly lower (F 193= 10.10, p < .01, Eta 2 = .09) and Vigour was significantly higher following the intervention program (F i,,98 = 7.65, p < .01, Eta 2= .07). Univariate  ...
Andrew M. Lane, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIGOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vigour is used in the context of the following news items.
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Flowing glaciers of nitrogen hint at Pluto's inner vigour
Ten days after NASA's New Horizons probe whizzed by Pluto, scientists say they are closer to understanding the remote world's most distinctive and intriguing ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
2
Why is early vigour important in winter oilseed rape?
Early vigour will become increasingly important in future winter oilseed rape crops, according to Brian O'Connor of the Department of Agriculture. Speaking at ... «Agriland, Jul 15»
3
Responding to HIV in New Zealand with renewed vigour
With the 2014 figure showing an increase in new cases of HIV, the 30th anniversary will also signify a renewed vigour and conviction in responding to the ... «Scoop.co.nz, Jun 15»
4
Power Yoga: Your Guide to Physical Vigour
Power Yoga: Your Guide to Physical Vigour Yoga has been a popular form of art not only in India but also in the West. It has earned its unprecedented appeal ... «NDTV, Jun 15»
5
Peggy Seeger review – vigour, passion and an unexpected line in …
Peggy Seeger review – vigour, passion and an unexpected line in comedy. 4 / 5 stars. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London She may be folk royalty, but there's nothing ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Fifa is about to learn a stern lesson about the vigour of American …
But a number of other conclusions can be drawn from the vigour with which US regulators have pursued errant banks (not least because, as The New York ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
7
That missing vigour
Going by macro-numbers, the Narendra Modi government has a lot to cheer as it enters its second year. Falling deficit both on the current account and fiscal ... «The Hindu, May 15»
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Scientists restore youthful vigour to adult brains
Scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher, have successfully coaxed old brain processes to become young again, paving the way for new treatments for brain ... «The Hindu, May 15»
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BJP's Piyush Goyal takes a swipe at Rahul Gandhi for his 'new vigour'
“I am happy that Rahul Gandhi has come after vacation, with new vigour. People go on a long vacation. On returning, they get into a sudden spurt of activism, ... «Financial Express, May 15»
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NY Philharmonic/Gilbert review – vigour and clarity with …
NY Philharmonic/Gilbert review – vigour and clarity with contemporary work ... It underlined the vigour and clarity Gilbert brings to contemporary repertoire and ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
REFERENCE
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