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LIVERPOOL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports
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)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Meronyms (members of "Liverpool"):
Liverpudlian; Scouser (a native or resident of Liverpool)
Holonyms ("Liverpool" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Derivation:
Liverpudlian (of or relating to Liverpool or its people)
Context examples:
He saw himself, stripped to the waist, with naked fists, fighting his great fight with Liverpool Red in the forecastle of the Susquehanna; and he saw the bloody deck of the John Rogers, that gray morning of attempted mutiny, the mate kicking in death- throes on the main-hatch, the revolver in the old man's hand spitting fire and smoke, the men with passion-wrenched faces, of brutes screaming vile blasphemies and falling about him—and then he returned to the central scene, calm and clean in the steadfast light, where Ruth sat and talked with him amid books and paintings; and he saw the grand piano upon which she would later play to him; and he heard the echoes of his own selected and correct words, But then, may I not be peculiarly constituted to write?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He has been heard of in Liverpool.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You say that she quarrelled with your Liverpool relations.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The first thing Van Helsing said to me when we met at Liverpool Street was:— Have you said anything to our young friend the lover of her? "No," I said.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Scientists from the University of Granada and Liverpool John Moores University (UK) have established that school children who use backpacks should avoid loads of more than 10% of their body weight—and those who use trolleys, 20% of their body weight.
(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)
But I’m glad to hear that the young lord was heard of in Liverpool, and I’ll help you to take the news to the Hall.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I presume that this Jim Browner, the steward of a Liverpool boat, is the man whom you suspect?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Only last night we had news that the couple had been hunted down in Liverpool, and they prove to have no connection whatever with the matter in hand.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Probably because during her residence in Liverpool she had some hand in bringing about the events which led to the tragedy.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you are telegraphing home, Mr. Huxtable, it would be well to allow the people in your neighbourhood to imagine that the inquiry is still going on in Liverpool, or wherever else that red herring led your pack.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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