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Munro [mʌnˈrəʊ] n pl Munros (Individual Sports & Recreations / Mountaineering) Mountaineering any separate mountain peak over 3000 feet high: originally used of Scotland only but now sometimes extended to other parts of the British Isles [named after Hugh Thomas Munro (1856-1919), who published a list of these in 1891] Munro2 n
1. (Biographies / Munro, Alice (1931 M, Canadian, WRITING: short-story writer) Alice, original name Alice Laidlaw. born 1931, Canadian short-story writer; her books include Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), and The Love of a Good Woman (1999) 2. (Biographies / Munro, H(ector) H(ugh) (1870-1916) M, Scottish, WRITING: short-story writer) H(ector) H(ugh), pen name Saki. 1870-1916, Scottish author, born in Burma (now Myanmar), noted for his collections of satirical short stories, such as Reginald (1904) and Beasts and Superbeasts (1914) ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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The news had been brought, toward the decline of a day in midsummer, by an Indian runner, who also bore an urgent request from Munro, the commander of a work on the shore of the "holy lake," for a speedy and powerful reinforcement. I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence Munro. |
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