Aberdeen
[,æbə'di:n]
Definition
(noun.) a city in northeastern Scotland on the North Sea.
(noun.) a town in northeastern Maryland.
(noun.) a town in northeastern South Dakota.
(noun.) a town in western Washington.
Edited by Ivan--From WordNet
Examples
- So far as theory and details of working are concerned, there are a good many people still in the same shadowy frame of mind as the old Aberdeen postmaster, of whom the story is told. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Papa, is it the Edinburgh or the Aberdeen accent you have? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In his traction work he had a close second in Robert Davidson, of Aberdeen, Scotland, who in 1839 operated both a lathe and a small locomotive with the motor he had invented. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich the year after the Franco-Prussian War. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Candice