surrey

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈsʌɹi/
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/ˈsʌɹi/ · /ˈsɝɹi/ · /ˈsə-/

Definition of surrey

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. An inland county of South East England, bordered clockwise by Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire.
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name

  1. An inland county of South East England, bordered clockwise by Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire.
  2. The easternmost of the three historical counties of Jamaica, bordered by the county of Middlesex in the west; named after the English county.
  3. A city in British Columbia, Canada, near Vancouver.
    “Shortly after Surrey high school student Hamed Nastoh (called a “faggot” by classmates) killed himself by jumping off a bridge, James Chamberlain wrote a letter to the editor of a small newspaper called the Peace Arch News.”
  4. A township in Clare County, Michigan, United States.
  5. A city in Ward County, North Dakota, United States.

noun

  1. (historical)A light horse-drawn carriage with forward-facing seats accommodating two or four people, popular in the United States; a motorized carriage of similar design.
    “The Surrey must be looked upon as the spring novelty in the way of road-wagons.”
    “It suffered a wide verandah, one side of which led directly into the stables where, in former days, horses, surreys, and buggies had been kept, and where now two cars were housed— […]”
    “When I take you out, tonight, with me, / Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be: / You will set behind a team of snow white horses, / In the slickest gig you ever see! // Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry / When I take you out in the surrey, / When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!”

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Etymology

From Old English Sūþrigē, Sūþrigēa (“southern region”), from sūþerne (“southern”) + -gē (“district, region”).

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