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Definition of Bristol
1. Noun. An industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon.
Definition of Bristol
1. n. A seaport city in the west of England.
Definition of Bristol
1. Proper noun. A city and county in south-west England. ¹
2. Proper noun. (surname from=Old English) ¹
3. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) A woman's breast, usually as the plural ''bristols''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bristol
1. a smooth cardboard [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bristol
Literary usage of Bristol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York public library (1910)
"The heraldry of some of the citizens of Bristol between the years 1662 and 1688.
4 pi. ... Bristol, a historical and topographical account of the city. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1888)
"At the beginning of the Long parliament Bristol associated himself with those
who wished to see a thorough change in the system of government, ..."
3. Cavendish by Russell K. McCormmach, Christa Jungnickel (1996)
"Bristol Harbor Blagden and Cavendish together, probably through Blagden, who had
local knowledge and connections, became involved in the problems of Bristol ..."
4. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1897)
"We may return to Bristol by the tramway starting from St. John's Church (PI.
C, 1) and traversing White Ladies Road, or by train from Clifton Down Station ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"ward to the Siege of Bristol, where Prince Rupert is doing all he can to entrench
himself. LETTER XXXI. STORM OF Bristol •Ox ..."
6. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1893)
"The first Bristol of whom I have found any record is Thomas, whose name is in the
... Is anything known of ancestry and marriage of Thomas Bristol? ..."
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