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LYDIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor; a powerful kingdom until conquered by the Persians in 546 BC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Lydia" is a part of...):
Anatolia; Asia Minor (a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey)
Context examples:
Kitty stared at him, and Lydia exclaimed.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Lydia, my love, ring the bell—I must speak to Hill this moment.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Denny and Mr. Wickham walked with the young ladies to the door of Mr. Phillip's house, and then made their bows, in spite of Miss Lydia's pressing entreaties that they should come in, and even in spite of Mrs. Phillips's throwing up the parlour window and loudly seconding the invitation.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The happiness anticipated by Catherine and Lydia depended less on any single event, or any particular person, for though they each, like Elizabeth, meant to dance half the evening with Mr. Wickham, he was by no means the only partner who could satisfy them, and a ball was, at any rate, a ball.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She had been watching him the last hour, she said, as he walked up and down the street, and had Mr. Wickham appeared, Kitty and Lydia would certainly have continued the occupation, but unluckily no one passed windows now except a few of the officers, who, in comparison with the stranger, were become stupid, disagreeable fellows.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“With the officers!” cried Lydia.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
All were struck with the stranger's air, all wondered who he could be; and Kitty and Lydia, determined if possible to find out, led the way across the street, under pretense of wanting something in an opposite shop, and fortunately had just gained the pavement when the two gentlemen, turning back, had reached the same spot.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Lydia gaped as he opened the volume, and before he had, with very monotonous solemnity, read three pages, she interrupted him with: Do you know, mamma, that my uncle Phillips talks of turning away Richard; and if he does, Colonel Forster will hire him.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions; their minds were more vacant than their sisters', and when nothing better offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening; and however bare of news the country in general might be, they always contrived to learn some from their aunt.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Catherine was disconcerted, and made no answer; but Lydia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
