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Miranda

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Mi·ran·da 1  (m-rnd)
n.
A satellite of Uranus.
[After Miranda, daughter of the magician Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare.]
Mi·ran·da 2  (m-rnd)
adj.
Of or relating to a warning given by police to a criminal suspect advising of the constitutional right against self-incrimination and of the right to have a lawyer present during any interrogation.
[After Ernesto A. Miranda(1940?-1976), petitioner in the case of Miranda v. Arizona (1966).]
Miranda [mɪˈrændə]
n
(Astronomy & Space / Celestial Objects) one of the larger satellites of the planet Uranus
Miranda2
n
(Biographies / Miranda, Francisco de (1750-1816) M, Venezuelan, POLITICS: revolutionary, POLITICS: nationalist) Francisco de (franˈsisko de). 1750-1816, Venezuelan revolutionary, who planned to liberate South and Central America from Spain. A leader (1811-12) of the Venezuelan uprising, he surrendered to Spain and died in prison
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She was born the day father died Aunt Miranda wanted Hannah to come to Riverboro instead of me, but mother couldn't spare her; she takes hold of housework better than I do, Hannah does.
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We also heard that Miranda struck from the west end of the Sierra Ventana, in a direct line to the island of Cholechel, situated seventy leagues up the Rio Negro.
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Neither entreaty nor courtly remonstrance came from the English prince; but Sir Hugh Calverley passed silently over the border with his company, and the blazing walls of the two cities of Miranda and Puenta de la Reyna warned the unfaithful monarch that there were other metals besides gold, and that he was dealing with a man to whom it was unsafe to lie.
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