Definition of Murray

1. Noun. British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957).


2. Noun. Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915).

3. Noun. A southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide.
Exact synonyms: Murray River
Group relationships: Australia, Commonwealth Of Australia, Australia
Generic synonyms: River

Definition of Murray

1. Proper noun. A river in southeastern Australia, flowing 2,589 km (1,609 mi) to the Indian Ocean. ¹

2. Proper noun. Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. and elsewhere. ¹

3. Proper noun. (surname Scottish from=Scottish Gaelic) ¹

4. Proper noun. (surnames male given name), transferred from the surname. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Murray

1. moray [n -S] - See also: moray

Lexicographical Neighbors of Murray

Muriel Spark
Murillo
Muritaniya
Murmansk
Muroidea
Murphy
Murphy's Law
Murphy's law
Murphy's percussion
Murphy's sign
Murphy bed
Murphy beds
Murphy drip
Murphy game
Murray (current term)
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray River
Murray Valley encephalitis
Murray Valley encephalitis virus
Murray Valley rash
Murraymania
Murree
Murrinh-Patha
Murrow
Murrumbidgee
Murrumbidgee River
Murrumbidgee jam
Murrumbidgee jams
Murugan

Literary usage of Murray

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Thomas Wilde Truro (1850)
"The Defendant, William Murray, by his answer, stated, ... alter the dismissal of David Murray, he, William Murray, had applied to him for some security by ..."

2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Murray, John, publisher, London. Murray's handbook of travel talk: a collection of questions, phrases and vocabularies in English, French, German, ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"(Murray.) NOTES OX BOOKS, ETC. The History of Modern Europe, from the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the War in the Crimea in 1857. By Thomas Henry Dyer. ..."

4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"He was a braw gallant, And he rid at the ring; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh he might have been a king! He was a braw gallant, And he playd at the ba; ..."

5. Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1898)
"Murray, Alexander Davidson, editor of Newcastle Daily Journal since 1869; 6. ... 1841; es of George Murray. Educ.: Edinburgh High School and University ..."

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