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RICHMOND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capital of the state of Virginia located in the east central part of the state; was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
Synonyms:
capital of Virginia; Richmond
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)
Holonyms ("Richmond" is a part of...):
Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)
Context examples:
A little way down the room I saw the black face and woolly head of Bill Richmond, in a purple-and-gold footman’s livery—destined to be the predecessor of Molineaux, Sutton, and all that line of black boxers who have shown that the muscular power and insensibility to pain which distinguish the African give him a peculiar advantage in the sports of the ring.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The difference in that respect of Richmond and London was enough to make the whole difference of seeing him always and seeing him never.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The want of common discretion, of caution: his going down to Richmond for the whole time of her being at Twickenham; her putting herself in the power of a servant; it was the detection, in short—oh, Fanny! it was the detection, not the offence, which she reprobated.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
There was no comfort in having him in London; he might as well be at Enscombe; but Richmond was the very distance for easy intercourse.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The following day brought news from Richmond to throw every thing else into the background.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Miss Smith, and Miss Bickerton, another parlour boarder at Mrs. Goddard's, who had been also at the ball, had walked out together, and taken a road, the Richmond road, which, though apparently public enough for safety, had led them into alarm.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Now, however, it was absolutely to be; every preparation was resumed, and very soon after the Churchills had removed to Richmond, a few lines from Frank, to say that his aunt felt already much better for the change, and that he had no doubt of being able to join them for twenty-four hours at any given time, induced them to name as early a day as possible.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The whole party were assembled, excepting Frank Churchill, who was expected every moment from Richmond; and Mrs. Elton, in all her apparatus of happiness, her large bonnet and her basket, was very ready to lead the way in gathering, accepting, or talking—strawberries, and only strawberries, could now be thought or spoken of.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Then pray stay at Richmond.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In short, my dear madam, it was a quarrel blameless on her side, abominable on mine; and I returned the same evening to Richmond, though I might have staid with you till the next morning, merely because I would be as angry with her as possible.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
