Definition of Ralegh

1. Noun. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ralegh

Rajkot
Rajkumari
Rajkumaris
Rajneeshee
Rajneeshees
Rajpoot
Rajpoots
Rajput
Rajputs
Rajshahi District
Rajshahi Division
Rakai
Rakaposhi
Raku
Rakvere
Ralegh
Raleigh
Rallidae
Ralph
Ralph Barton Perry
Ralph Bunche
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Johnson Bunche
Ralph Richardson
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Waldo Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralstonism
Rama
Ramachandra

Literary usage of Ralegh

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

1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Very soon afterwards, ralegh wa^ charged with having taken part in a plot to bring ... ralegh, however, was condemned to death, though his punishment was ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1812)
"And we do grant to the faid Walter ralegh, his heirs and ... abide within 200 leagues of any of the faid place or places, where the faid Walter ralegh, ..."

3. Journal by United States Congress Senate, United States, Congress (1905)
"The reason of this was, probably, to be found in the fact that ralegh was a ... In producing facsimile autographs of the ralegh family, he shewed that, ..."

4. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"The expeditions of Blake and Penn at this time are strikingly parallel to that last expedition of ralegh in the middle period of James I.2 ralegh too before ..."

5. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"The expeditions of Blake and Penn at this time are strikingly parallel to that last expedition of ralegh in the middle period of James I.2 ralegh too before ..."

6. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Sir Walter ralegh had already attracted the Queen's attention. ... ralegh remained to the end a member of the inner circle of the Court, though he suffered ..."

7. Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning by Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere (1908)
"WALTER ralegh As a martyr ralegh was popular with the immediately succeeding generation; but the romantic glamor which has grown about his name in more ..."

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