nor

Conjunction

nor

1. (literary) And not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one)
   • Boethius

     Out with it, nor hold it fast within your breast.

   • Shakespeare

     I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

   • Ben Jonson

     Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

   • Milton

     Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

   • Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman

     And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]

   Nor did I stop to think, but ran.

2. A function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

   I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.

3. Used to introduce a further negative statement
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

   The struggle didn't end, nor was it any less diminished.

4. (Britain, dialect) Than.
   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:

     'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 92:

     I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.

   He's no better nor you.

Noun

nor (plural nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

See also

• and
• nand
• or
• xor

Declension

Derived terms

• (a se) înnora
• noros

Declension

Derived terms