US /tʃɔr/ UK /tʃɔː/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a routine or tedious task, especially a household one

    Washing the dishes is the chore he dreads most.

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Synonyms
1 noun · a routine or tedious task,... taskdutyerrandjobdrudgery
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Word family
Related forms charcharwoman

Etymology

A variant of obsolete chare/char ('a turn of work, an odd job'), from Old English cierr ('turn, occasion, affair'), from cierran ('to turn').

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