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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

Dolor

Pronunciation / Transliteration: doh-lor

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sore/sɔːr/
adjectivenounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #2100 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Después del entrenamiento, sentí un dolor en mis músculos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A feeling of pain or discomfort in a part of the body.

    "After the workout, I felt a sore in my muscles."
As pronoun
  1. 1

    Used to refer to something that is near the speaker.

    "Sore is the book that I was telling you about."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Proto-Germanic *sairaz meaning 'painful' or 'grievous', with roots tracing back to Indo-European. It has cognates in Old High German 'sêr' and Old Norse 'sár'. Over centuries, the meaning shifted from a severe physical or emotional grief to more localized bodily discomfort and tenderness.

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