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SUTHERLAND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926)

Synonyms:

Dame Joan Sutherland; Joan Sutherland; Sutherland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

soprano (a female singer)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)