norconjunction
uk/nɔːr/us/nɔːr/used before the second or last of a set of negative possibilities, usually after "neither":
We can neither change nor improve it.
Strangely, neither Carlo nor Juan saw what happened.
B2 mainly UK neither:
"I've never been to Iceland." "Nor have I."
I can't be at the meeting and nor can Andrew.
More examples
- Politically they're neither right-wing nor left - just a bunch of wishy-washy pseudo-liberals.
- They followed neither the spirit nor the letter of the law.
- Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
- I can't make head nor tail of these instructions on the packet.
- Neither my mother nor my father went to university.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Either, or, neither, nor
- and
- and/or 2
- either
- else
- neither
- or
- or else idiom
- otherwise