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CAMDEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Philadelphia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Camden" is a part of...):
Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples:
Even if he did not come to Camden Place himself, it would be in her power to send an intelligible sentence by Captain Harville.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Lady Russell's composed mind and polite manners were put to some trial on this point, in her intercourse in Camden Place.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Miss Carteret was with her mother; consequently it was not reasonable to expect accommodation for all the three Camden Place ladies.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Anne could not have supposed it possible that her first evening in Camden Place could have passed so well!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He had called in Camden Place; had called a second time, a third; had been pointedly attentive.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She was put down in Camden Place; and Lady Russell then drove to her own lodgings, in Rivers Street.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Have you forgot that we are engaged to Camden Place to-morrow night? and that we were most particularly asked to meet Lady Dalrymple and her daughter, and Mr Elliot, and all the principal family connexions, on purpose to be introduced to them?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Mary was in excellent spirits, enjoying the gaiety and the change, and so well satisfied with the journey in her mother-in-law's carriage with four horses, and with her own complete independence of Camden Place, that she was exactly in a temper to admire everything as she ought, and enter most readily into all the superiorities of the house, as they were detailed to her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Charles and Mary still talked on in the same style; he, half serious and half jesting, maintaining the scheme for the play, and she, invariably serious, most warmly opposing it, and not omitting to make it known that, however determined to go to Camden Place herself, she should not think herself very well used, if they went to the play without her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Promising to be with them the whole of the following morning, therefore, she closed the fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to Camden Place, there to spend the evening chiefly in listening to the busy arrangements of Elizabeth and Mrs Clay for the morrow's party, the frequent enumeration of the persons invited, and the continually improving detail of all the embellishments which were to make it the most completely elegant of its kind in Bath, while harassing herself with the never-ending question, of whether Captain Wentworth would come or not?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
