choreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA: /t͡ʃɔː/
• (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA: /t͡ʃoɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: chōr, IPA: /t͡ʃo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /t͡ʃoə/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)

名詞

chore (plural chores)

1. A task, especially a regularly needed task for the upkeep of a home or similar, such as cleaning or preparing meals.

   Before we moved in together, my partner and I divided up the chores: he cooks and vacuums, and I do the dishes and laundry.

   The children were made to do their daily chores before being allowed to play games.

2. A task that is difficult, unpleasant, or tediously routine.

   I used to enjoy being self-employed, but it's become a bit of a chore recently.

   • 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 418:

     Shorty after his nomination as Chief Justice was announced, it came to light that while on the Court, Fortas, a close friend of Johnson's, had performed a number of personal and political chores for him. This was a clear violation of the principle of separation of powers.

派生語

関連する語

• char, ajar

動詞

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

1. (US, dated) To do chores.

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “chore”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

語源 2

Possibly derived from Romani ćor (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.

別の表記

• chor (Geordie)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA: /t͡ʃɔː/
• (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA: /t͡ʃɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: chōr, IPA: /t͡ʃo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /t͡ʃoə/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)

動詞

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

1. (Scotland, dialect) To steal.
   • 1996, Sheena Blackhall, Wittgenstein's Web: Scottish Short Stories, page 11:

     "Graham Reid's the thief. I saw him chore the sweeties. Bit naebody's gaun tae believe a spikkin boolie. ..."

同意語

• steal (standard English)
• thieve (standard English)
• twoc (Geordie)

語源 3

名詞

chore (plural chores)

1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
   • a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:

     On every wall, and sung where e'er I walk. I number these, as being of the chore

アナグラム

• Roche, ocher, ochre, roche

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɔː/
• (General American) IPA: /koɹ/
• 異形同音異義語: core, corps; caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

接尾辞

-chore

1. An organism, especially a plant or plant pathogen, that spreads by a specified agent, or in a specified manner.

派生語

語源 2

Backformation from biochore, from bio-+Ancient Greek χώρα (khṓra, “country”).

接尾辞

-chore

1. A group of habitats with a similar environment and a similar biota.

派生語

• bryochore
• cryochore
• dendrochore
• poëchore
• xerochore

参照

アナグラム

• Roche, ocher, ochre, roche