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EYRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent
Synonyms:
Eyre; Lake Eyre
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
Holonyms ("Eyre" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
Context examples:
How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Miss Eyre, are you ill?" said Bessie.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Say your prayers, Miss Eyre, when you are by yourself; for if you don't repent, something bad might be permitted to come down the chimney and fetch you away.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Well, you have been crying, Miss Jane Eyre; can you tell me what about?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gave orders that Jane Eyre should be left in the red-room till I came to her myself."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I asked Aunt Reed once, and she said possibly I might have some poor, low relations called Eyre, but she knew nothing about them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress's son! Your young master."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Miss Eyre, you are not so unsophisticated as Adele: she demands a 'cadeau,' clamorously, the moment she sees me: you beat about the bush.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Why, Miss Eyre, though Mr. Rochester's visits here are rare, they are always sudden and unexpected; and as I observed that it put him out to find everything swathed up, and to have a bustle of arrangement on his arrival, I thought it best to keep the rooms in readiness.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I avail myself of the opportunity which a third edition of Jane Eyre affords me, of again addressing a word to the Public, to explain that my claim to the title of novelist rests on this one work alone.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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