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THAMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea
Synonyms:
River Thames; Thames; Thames River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Thames" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
My aunt was quite gracious on the subject of the Thames (it really did look very well with the sun upon it, though not like the sea before the cottage), but she could not relent towards the London smoke, which, she said, peppered everything.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He is an experienced hand at the work, as he has had for years a launch of his own on the Thames, and another on the Norfolk Broads.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mr. Summerlee declared, with an acid smile, that he fully appreciated the difference between the Thames and the Amazon, which lay in the fact that any assertion about the former could be tested, while about the latter it could not.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In Kennington Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson’s shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named Dr. Barnicot, who has one of the largest practices upon the south side of the Thames.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Professor Challenger answered that Mr. Summerlee appeared to be confusing the Amazon with the Thames; that it was in reality a somewhat larger river; that Mr. Summerlee might be interested to know that with the Orinoco, which communicated with it, some fifty thousand miles of country were opened up, and that in so vast a space it was not impossible for one person to find what another had missed.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
