单词 | village-founder |
释义 | > as lemmasvillage-founder C3. In objective and objective genitive, instrumental, locative, or other combinations, as village-founder, village-haunter; village-based, village-born, village-dwelling, village-lit, village-made adjs. ΚΠ a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxcix, in Poems (1878) IV. 175 These..wrought more With village-haunters. 1852 G. P. Badger Nestorians I. 343 The Jès were all Igrâwy, that is village-dwelling Arabs, who cultivate the soil. 1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey ix. 242 The landscape of village-lit plain and forest-darkened height. 1880 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 35 The local hero or eponymous village-founder was the man who cut down the jungle. 1883 R. Jefferies Nature near London 221 Each village-made crook had an individuality, that of the blacksmith. 1891 Daily News 11 Sept. 3/4 The many village-born men in towns. 1976 P. R. White Planning for Public Transport vii. 140 In this situation the village-based independent may score over the larger operator. < as lemmas |
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