moor1Pronunciation: /mɔː, mʊə/Translate moor | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of moor noun chiefly British a tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather: a little town in the moors a moor preserved for shooting:a grouse moor US or dialect a fen. Origin: Old English mōr, of Germanic originmoor in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of moor in the US English dictionary