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DOVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital of the state of Delaware
Synonyms:
capital of Delaware; Dover
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)
Holonyms ("Dover" is a part of...):
DE; Del.; Delaware; Diamond State; First State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples:
My aunt had long been re-established at Dover, and Traddles had begun to get into some little practice at the Bar, in the very first term after my departure.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“If there is any Donkey in Dover, whose audacity it is harder to me to bear than another's, that,” said my aunt, striking the table, “is the animal!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I told him mine, which was down that street there, and which I wanted him to take to the Dover coach office for sixpence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She come to England, and was set ashore at Dover.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My aunt and I were at that time vacating the two cottages at Highgate; I intending to go abroad, and she to return to her house at Dover.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
From this digression, let me proceed to Dover.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My aunt, however (who has sold the house at Dover, to good advantage), is not going to remain here, but intends removing herself to a still more tiny cottage close at hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For a time—at all events until my book should be completed, which would be the work of several months—I took up my abode in my aunt's house at Dover; and there, sitting in the window from which I had looked out at the moon upon the sea, when that roof first gave me shelter, I quietly pursued my task.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She had been undecided, on leaving Dover, whether or no to give the finishing touch to that renunciation of mankind in which she had been educated, by marrying a pilot; but she decided against that venture.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Thoroughly tired, I went to bed too, at midnight; passed the next day on the Dover coach; burst safe and sound into my aunt's old parlour while she was at tea (she wore spectacles now); and was received by her, and Mr. Dick, and dear old Peggotty, who acted as housekeeper, with open arms and tears of joy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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