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CLEVELAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest city in Ohio; located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie; a major Great Lakes port
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 ("Cleveland" is a part of...):
Buckeye State; OH; Ohio (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)
Sense 2
Meaning:
22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908)
Synonyms:
Cleveland; Grover Cleveland; President Cleveland; Stephen Grover Cleveland
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)
Context examples:
She knew not that she had been the means of sending the owners of Cleveland away, in about seven days from the time of their arrival.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
"Cleveland!"—she cried, with great agitation.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
My love, applying to her husband, don't you long to have the Miss Dashwoods come to Cleveland?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She began by inquiring if they saw much of Mr. Willoughby at Cleveland, and whether they were intimately acquainted with him.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The Palmers returned to Cleveland the next day, and the two families at Barton were again left to entertain each other.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The shock of Colonel Brandon's errand at Barton had been much softened to Mrs. Dashwood by her own previous alarm; for so great was her uneasiness about Marianne, that she had already determined to set out for Cleveland on that very day, without waiting for any further intelligence, and had so far settled her journey before his arrival, that the Careys were then expected every moment to fetch Margaret away, as her mother was unwilling to take her where there might be infection.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The steadiness of his manner, and the intelligence of his eye as he spoke, convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication, she said, after a moment's recollection, Mr. Willoughby, you OUGHT to feel, and I certainly DO—that after what has passed—your coming here in this manner, and forcing yourself upon my notice, requires a very particular excuse.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
As bluntly as he could speak it, therefore, he told me that Marianne Dashwood was dying of a putrid fever at Cleveland—a letter that morning received from Mrs. Jennings declared her danger most imminent—the Palmers are all gone off in a fright, &c.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
On HER measures depended those of her two friends; Mrs. Jennings could not quit Cleveland during the Dashwoods' stay; and Colonel Brandon was soon brought, by their united request, to consider his own abode there as equally determinate, if not equally indispensable.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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