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tor


noun

  1. a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.

  1. a suffix found in loanwords from Latin, forming personal agent nouns from verbs and, less commonly, from nouns: dictator; genitor; janitor; orator; victor.

noun

  1. a high hill, esp a bare rocky one
  2. mainly Southwest English a prominent rock or heap of rocks, esp on a hill
n.

“high, rocky hill,” Old English torr “tower, rock.” Obviously cognate with Gaelic torr “lofty hill, mound,” Old Welsh twrr “heap, pile;” and probably ultimately from Latin turris “high structure” see tower (n.)). But sources disagree on whether the Celts borrowed it from the Anglo-Saxons or the other way round.

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