moor

moor

noun

Definition of MOOR

1

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country <as she wanders the windswept moor, the novel's heroine vows that she will never marry the vicar>

Synonyms campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath, lea (or ley), llano, moor, pampa, prairie, savanna (also savannah), steppe, tundra, veld (or veldt)

Related Words field, meadow; floodplain; bottom, bottomland, flat, lowland; plateau, table, tableland, upland

2

spongy land saturated or partially covered with water <a mysterious figure who was said to have haunted the moors of southwest England>

Synonyms bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, muskeg, slough (also slew or slue), swampland, wash, wetland

Related Words swale; quagmire; guck (or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush