surrey
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of surrey
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- 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
- An inland county of South East England, bordered clockwise by Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire.
- The easternmost of the three historical counties of Jamaica, bordered by the county of Middlesex in the west; named after the English county.
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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.”
- A township in Clare County, Michigan, United States.
- A city in Ward County, North Dakota, United States.
noun
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(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!”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old English Sūþrigē, Sūþrigēa (“southern region”), from sūþerne (“southern”) + -gē (“district, region”).
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