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Murray

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Mur·ray  (mûr)
A city of northern Utah, an industrial suburb of Salt Lake City. Population: 44,800.

Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry 1837-1915.
British philologist and the original lexicographer (1879-1915) of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Noun1.MurrayMurray - British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957)
2.MurrayMurray - Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
3.MurrayMurray - a southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide
Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
Australia - the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean


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Murray dined with Pa last week, and they sat over their wine until near ten.
Somehow the dark, grim young major from Ulster had guessed the hideous truth; and when they walked slowly together down that road towards the bridge Murray was telling the general that he must resign instantly, or be court-martialled and shot.
Murray, of Horton Lodge, near O---, about seventy miles from our village: a formidable distance to me, as I had never been above twenty miles from home in all the course of my twenty years' sojourn on earth; and as, moreover, every individual in that family and in the neighbourhood was utterly unknown to myself and all my acquaintances.
 
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