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Definition of Hayes

1. Noun. Acclaimed actress of stage and screen (1900-1993).

2. Noun. 19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893).

Definition of Hayes

1. Proper noun. Any of a number of places, outside Britain named for persons with the surname. ¹

2. Proper noun. (surname A=An English habitational from=Old English) ¹

3. Proper noun. (surname A=An Irish from=Irish dot=), anglicised from (term Ó hAodha descendant of Aodh lang=ga) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hayes

Hawsmith Hawson Hawthorne Hawthorne effect Hawthornean Hawthornian Haya Hayastan Hayden Haydn

Hayek Hayekian Hayem's haematoblast Hayem's solution Hayem-Widal syndrome Hayes Hayflick's limit Haygarth's nodes Haygarth's nodosities Hayhurst

Hayk Haylee Hayleigh Hayley Haym Salomon Hays Hayti Haytian Haytians Haywood

Literary usage of Hayes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"Finally Rutherford B. hayes had been commended to the country by John Sherman in a cogent public letter and he had the unanimous support of his State. ..."

2. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"THE hayes-TILDEN PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. Nomination of RB hayes for President— His Fitness for the Responsible Office- Political Shrewdness of Samuel J. ..."

3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"A decent respectable life, And rather deserving of praise, Lived John, but his curse was his wife —His horrible wife Mrs. hayes. A heart more atrociously ..."

4. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"When the decision of the commission made Mr. hayes President, he accepted the trust with a determination to restore the Union morally by re-establishing ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"Since the Senate declined to overrule these decisions, they remained valid ; and in this way hayes was declared elected by 185 votes to 184. ..."

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