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DEVONSHIRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A county in southwestern England
Synonyms:
Devon; Devonshire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)
Holonyms ("Devonshire" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
“Mine, perhaps you recollect,” said Traddles, with a serious look, “lives down in Devonshire—one of ten. Consequently, I am not so much engaged as you—in that sense.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"You reside in Devonshire, I think,"—was his next observation, "in a cottage near Dawlish."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“She is a curate's daughter,” said Traddles; “one of ten, down in Devonshire. Yes!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I thought you were both in Devonshire," said he.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
You see, my dear Copperfield, falling again into the low confidential tone, after I had delivered my argument in DOE dem. JIPES versus WIGZIELL, which did me great service with the profession, I went down into Devonshire, and had some serious conversation in private with the Reverend Horace.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Did not I see them together in Devonshire every day, and all day long; and did not I know that your sister came to town with me on purpose to buy wedding clothes?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The idea of those Devonshire girls, among the dry law-stationers and the attorneys' offices; and of the tea and toast, and children's songs, in that grim atmosphere of pounce and parchment, red-tape, dusty wafers, ink-jars, brief and draft paper, law reports, writs, declarations, and bills of costs; seemed almost as pleasantly fanciful as if I had dreamed that the Sultan's famous family had been admitted on the roll of attorneys, and had brought the talking bird, the singing tree, and the golden water into Gray's Inn Hall.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Her sorrow, her disappointment, her deep regret, when I told her that I was obliged to leave Devonshire so immediately—I never shall forget it—united too with such reliance, such confidence in me!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I speak, if I may presume to say so, as one who has some little experience of such things, said Traddles, being myself engaged to a young lady—one of ten, down in Devonshire—and seeing no probability, at present, of our engagement coming to a termination.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"But why should you think," said Lucy, looking ashamed of her sister, "that there are not as many genteel young men in Devonshire as Sussex?"
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
