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dʊər, daʊər, ˈdaʊ ərdour

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dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyieldingadjective
stubbornly unyielding
"dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
dour, forbidding, grimadjective
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
"a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullenadjective
showing a brooding ill humor
"a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

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douradjective
Stern, harsh and forbidding.
douradjective
Unyielding and obstinate.
douradjective
Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.
Etymology: From durus, or possibly from dúr.

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Dour
Dour (French pronunciation: [duʁ]; Picard: Doû) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 km2, giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per km2. The municipality consists of the following districts: Blaugies, Dour, Élouges, and Wihéries. Dour is often considered the western end of the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia. Since 1989, Dour has hosted the annual Dour Festival, a music festival covering various genres.

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dour
Dour is an adjective used to describe someone or something as being severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance. It can also refer to something that is harsh or forbidding.

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Douradjective
hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold
Etymology: [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]

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Dour
Dour is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 km², giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per km². Since 1989 Dour has hosted the annual Dour Festival, an alternative music festival. Dour is often considered the western end of the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia.

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Dour
dōōr, adj. (Scot.) obstinate: bold. [Fr.,—L. durus, hard.]

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DOUR
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dour is ranked #88685 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

The Dour surname appeared 209 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Dour.

86.6% or 181 total occurrences were White.
5.2% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
4.3% or 9 total occurrences were Black.

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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dour in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of dour in a Sentence

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I think about the leftist agenda of this administration and the dour, life-is-bad, you-better-get-used-to-it personality of Biden.

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References

^ Princeton's WordNet
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dour
^ Wiktionary
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^ Wikipedia
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^ ChatGPT
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^ Webster Dictionary
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dour
^ Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dour
^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=dour
^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
^ Usage in printed sources
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=dour

Translations for dour

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عنيدArabic
намусен, суров, строг, мраченBulgarian
herbGerman
aǔstera, severaEsperanto
terco, rígido, obstinado, severo, melancólico, duro, inflexible, despiadado, rigorista, lúgubre, taciturno, riguroso, austeroSpanish
tylyFinnish
rigoriste, inflexible, dur, mélancolique, têtu, austère, entêté, rigide, taciturne, obstiné, sévère, rigoureux, morose, lugubreFrench
cupoItalian
onverbiddelijk, stuurs, afschrikwekkendDutch
srogi, ponuryPolish
строгий, мрачный, суровый, непреклонныйRussian

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Definitions for dourdʊər, daʊər, ˈdaʊ ərdour

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