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SURREY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("surrey" is a kind of...):
carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A county in southeastern England on the Thames
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)
Holonyms ("Surrey" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Holonyms ("Surrey" is a member of...):
Home Counties (the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded)
Context examples:
The sun sank slowly towards the low Surrey hills, and the shadows crept steadily eastwards, but the whirr of the wheels and the roar of the hoofs never slackened.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After leaving you at the station I went for a charming walk through some admirable Surrey scenery to a pretty little village called Ripley, where I had my tea at an inn, and took the precaution of filling my flask and of putting a paper of sandwiches in my pocket.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So ended my country trip, and it must be confessed that, however enjoyable, my day on the Surrey border has not been much more profitable than your own.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An answer had arrived to Holmes’s telegram before our Surrey officer had returned.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features than that which was associated with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If I might venture to offer you a word of advice, said the affable official, it would be to make for the Hampshire line, for Sir James Ford, on the Surrey border, has as great an objection to such assemblies as I have, whilst Mr. Merridew, of Long Hall, who is the Hampshire magistrate, has fewer scruples upon the point.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My old friend, Colonel Hayter, who had come under my professional care in Afghanistan, had now taken a house near Reigate in Surrey, and had frequently asked me to come down to him upon a visit.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I remember that he remarked what a queer household it was to find in the heart of Surrey, and that I agreed with him, though it has proved a good deal queerer than I thought.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey side.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Surrey.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
