Results for or

Definitions of or:

part of speech: conjunction

Otherwise; either; else; as, you may take this book or that one.

part of speech: noun

( heraldry) Gold.

part of speech: conjunction

Before.

part of speech: conjunction

A particle that marks an alternative; the correlative of either; or ever, before.

part of speech: noun

In her., gold, which is expressed by engraved small dots.

part of speech: conjunction

Marking an alternative, and sometimes opposition.

Usage examples for or:

• Did she know, or did she not know, what he was about to say? "Jane Oglander", Marie Belloc Lowndes

• For a minute or so there was silence. "The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories", Charles Weathers Bump

• Or had she something to say? "Night and Day", Virginia Woolf

• Come, of course you must know whether they were love letters or not! "Jane Oglander", Marie Belloc Lowndes