GREVILLE

Meaning of GREVILLE in English

/grev"il/ , n.

Fulke /foolk/ , 1st Baron Brooke , 1554-1628, English poet and statesman.

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GREVILLE — Greville BrE AmE ˈɡrev ɪl - ə l
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GREVILLE, FULKE, 1ST BARON BROOKE — born Oct. 3, 1554, Beauchamp Court, Warwickshire, Eng. died Sept. 30, 1628, Warwick English writer who, on his tomb, styled …
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WALLOP — I. ˈwäləp also ˈwȯl- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English wallop, walop, from Old North French walop, from waloper …
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PASS — I. ˈpas, ˈpaa(ə)s, ˈpais, ˈpȧs verb ( -ed/-ing/-es ) Etymology: Middle English passen, from Old French passer, from (assumed) Vulgar …
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LAND — I. ˈland, -aa(ə)nd; when a consonant follows without pause the d is sometimes lost, as in -nz for “lands” and …
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GROWL — I. ˈgrau̇l, esp before pause or consonant -au̇əl verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: probably of imitative origin intransitive verb 1. …
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GOOD — I. ˈgu̇d, in formulas of meeting & parting often _gəd adjective ( bet·ter ˈbed.ə(r), -etə- ; best ˈbest) Etymology: Middle …
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SWIMMY — ˈswimē, -mi adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: swim (I) + -y 1. : verging on, causing, or affected by dizziness …
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GREVILLEA — grə̇ˈvilēə noun Etymology: New Latin, after Charles F. Greville died 1809 Scottish botanist 1. capitalized : a large genus of …
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WARWICK — city, southeastern Queensland, Australia, on the Condamine River, in the southern Darling Downs. It became associated with sheep breeding in …
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SLAVIC LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Slavic languages in Europe. also called Slavonic languages group of Indo-European languages spoken in most of eastern …
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SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP — born Nov. 30, 1554, Penshurst, Kent, Eng. died Oct. 17, 1586, Arnhem, Neth. Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron …
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SHREWSBURY SCHOOL — in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, one of the major public (privately endowed) schools in England, founded in 1552 by Edward VI. Thomas …
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SAYE AND SELE, WILLIAM FIENNES, 1ST VISCOUNT, 8TH ... — born May 28, 1582, Broughton Castle, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, Eng. died April 14, 1662, Broughton Castle English statesman, a leading …
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PENKOVSKY, OLEG VLADIMIROVICH — born April 23, 1919, Vladikavkaz, Russia died May 1963?, U.S.S.R. senior Soviet military intelligence officer who was convicted of spying …
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LONSDALE, GORDON ARNOLD — born Aug. 27, 1924, Cobalt, Ont., Can. died October 1970?, near Moscow, Russian S.F.S.R. original name Konon Trofimovich Molody spy …
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HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON — born July 6, 1785, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng. died Aug. 12, 1865, Kew, Surrey English botanist who was the first director …
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HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY — born c. 1761, , Great Neston, Cheshire, Eng. died Jan. 15, 1815, Calais, France original name Amy Lyon mistress of …
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EVANS, OLIVER
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DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM — born 1606, Oxford, Eng. died April 7, 1668, London Davenant also spelled D'avenant English poet, playwright, and theatre manager who …
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DANIEL, SAMUEL — born 1562?, Taunton, Somerset, Eng. died 1619 English contemplative poet, marked in both verse and prose by his philosophic sense …
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CARROLL, LEWIS — born Jan. 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, Eng. died Jan. 14, 1898, Guildford, Surrey pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson English logician, …
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HIGH
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WHIP — 1. сущ. 1) а) кнут, хлыст, прут, хворостина; перен. побег, росток to crack, snap a whip — щелкать кнутом / …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
WHIP — 1. сущ. 1) а) кнут, хлыст, прут, хворостина; перен. побег, росток to crack, snap a whip — щелкать кнутом / хлыстом Syn: twig I, sprig …
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СТРЭЧИ — (Strachey, Lytton) (1880-1932), английский биограф, литературовед, эссеист, известен иронической трактовкой своих биографических героев. Джайлз Литтон Стрэчи родился 1 марта 1880 …
Русский словарь Colier

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