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Definition of Murray
1. Noun. British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957).
Generic synonyms: Classical Scholar, Classicist
2. Noun. Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915).
Generic synonyms: Lexicographer, Lexicologist, Philologist, Philologue
3. Noun. A southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide.
Group relationships: Australia, Commonwealth Of Australia, Australia
Generic synonyms: River
Definition of Murray
1. Proper noun. A river in southeastern Australia, flowing 2,589 km (1,609 mi) to the Indian Ocean. ¹
2. Proper noun. Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. and elsewhere. ¹
3. Proper noun. (surname Scottish from=Scottish Gaelic) ¹
4. Proper noun. (surnames male given name), transferred from the surname. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Murray
1. moray [n -S] - See also: moray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Murray
Literary usage of Murray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Thomas Wilde Truro (1850)
"The Defendant, William Murray, by his answer, stated, ... alter the dismissal of
David Murray, he, William Murray, had applied to him for some security by ..."
2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Murray, John, publisher, London. Murray's handbook of travel talk: a collection
of questions, phrases and vocabularies in English, French, German, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"(Murray.) NOTES OX BOOKS, ETC. The History of Modern Europe, from the Fall of
Constantinople in 1453 to the War in the Crimea in 1857. By Thomas Henry Dyer. ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"He was a braw gallant, And he rid at the ring; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh
he might have been a king! He was a braw gallant, And he playd at the ba; ..."
5. Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1898)
"Murray, Alexander Davidson, editor of Newcastle Daily Journal since 1869; 6. ...
1841; es of George Murray. Educ.: Edinburgh High School and University ..."
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