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BRIGHTON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in East Sussex in southern England that is a popular resort; site of the University of Sussex
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 ("Brighton" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
“I’ve seen his old faults and I haven’t seen his old merits,” said Sir John Lade, our opponent of the Brighton Road.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The plan of the young couple was to proceed, after a few days, to Brighton, and take a house there for some weeks.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They must all go to Brighton.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Often he was at Brighton with the Prince.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My daughters, replied Sir Thomas, gravely interposing, have their pleasures at Brighton, and I hope are very happy; but the dance which I think of giving at Mansfield will be for their cousins.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
But not before they went to Brighton?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was Tom who paid a poet from Brighton to write the lines for the tombstone, which we all thought were very true and good, beginning—
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Julia was to go with them to Brighton.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Oh, yes!—if one could but go to Brighton!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Friar’s Oak is in a dip of the Downs, and the forty-third milestone between London and Brighton lies on the skirt of the village.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
