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Definition of Corrie
1. Noun. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake.
Definition of Corrie
1. n. Same as Correi.
Definition of Corrie
1. Proper noun. (surname Scottish from=Scottish Gaelic) ¹
2. Proper noun. (surnames male given name), occasional transferred use of the surname. ¹
3. Proper noun. A female given name, diminutive of Cora, Corinne, or borrowed from the Dutch pet form of Cornelia. ¹
4. Abbreviation. (British informal) w:Coronation Street Coronation Street (soap opera) ¹
5. Noun. A bowl-shaped geographical feature formed by glaciation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corrie
1. a cirque [n -S] - See also: cirque
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrie
Literary usage of Corrie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"To Lou- don's and other magazines Corrie contributed a large number of papers on
... John Corrie, for many years curate of Cols- terworth and vicar of ..."
2. Poems of Places by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1876)
"GAY is thy glen, Corrie, With all thy groves flowering; Green is thy glen, Corrie,
When July is showering; And sweet is yon wood where ..."
3. Place Names of West Aberdeenshire by James Macdonald, Donald Mackinnon (1899)
"Probably mean-easg, " Corrie of the little marshes," but I have not heard this
name pronounced, and can only conjecture that the stress is on mean. ..."
4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1829)
"ARCHDEACON Corrie. To the Editor of the Asiatic Journal. SIR : In perusing a
speech, recorded in pp. 243—244 of your journal for February, said to have been ..."
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