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# ogre

«ogre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a huge, frightening giant in stories who eats people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ogre, ogres; feminine «ogress»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ogre is a huge, frightening giant in stories who eats people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogre/#m1)

2) An ogre is a very cruel or frightening person, as a joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogre/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales the ogre is the monster the hero must outwit or defeat

### examples

- The ogre lived in a dark cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogre/#x1)
- «Get out, then!» said the ogre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogre/#x2)
- The children ran from the ogre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogre/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ogre» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogre/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.