Mordor
name, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 An area of peril, darkness, or evil, which people fear to visit or explore.
"It is a “Mordor” sort of anthropology, dark rather than light, swampland rather than solid ground."
- 2 Russia. derogatory, slang
Example
More examples"The lord of the elves will cross the sea only if the lord of Mordor is defeated."
Etymology
From Mordor, a bleak realm ruled by the dark lord Sauron, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth. Tolkien created the name in his constructed language Sindarin, from morn (“dark, black”) and dôr (“land”). Compare with Old English morþor (“murder”), murder, Greek μαυρός (mavrós, “dim”) and Latin mors (“death”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian Мо́рдор (Mórdor) or Russian Мо́рдор (Mórdor), both of those from the English word, alluding to it being the land of orcs.
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