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Also spelled ower

US /ˈoʊ.vɚ/ UK /ˈəʊ̯.və/
Freq #112

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Finished; ended.

    The meeting was over by five o'clock.

  2. 2
  3. 3

Thesaurus

Synonyms
3 adv · across the whole of an area... all over
Word family
Forms o’ered
Derived forms all-overarc-overarcoverbackoverburnovercaboverchange-overcoilovercomb-overcombovercome-overcross-over

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Proto-West Germanic *obar Old English ofer Middle English over English over From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, ofor, ouer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”). Cognates Cognate with Scots ower (“over”), Yola oer, ower, owr (“over”), Saterland Frisian uur (“over”), West Frisian oer (“over, across”), Cimbrian übar (“over”), Dutch over (“over”), German ober, über, ueber (“over, above”), Limburgis…

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