SALISBURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Salisbury mean? 

• SALISBURY (noun)
  The noun SALISBURY has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe

  Familiarity information: SALISBURY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALISBURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Zimbabwe; Harare; Salisbury

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Salisbury" is a part of...):

Republic of Zimbabwe; Rhodesia; Southern Rhodesia; Zimbabwe (a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980)

 Context examples 

At the castle which is held by the brave knight, Sir Nigel Loring, constable to the Earl of Salisbury.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The general will send a servant with me, I dare say, half the way—and then I shall soon be at Salisbury, and then I am only nine miles from home.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Something of the sort is to be seen in Salisbury Crags at Edinburgh.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Accordingly one day my nurse carried me thither, but I may truly say I came back disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Were it not for this constableship which the Earl of Salisbury hath bestowed upon us we could scarce uphold the state which is fitting to our degree.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Morland says that by sending it tonight to Salisbury, we may have it tomorrow.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The deeds of black Agnes of Dunbar, of Lady Salisbury and of the Countess of Montfort, were still fresh in the public minds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Salisbury she had known to be her point on leaving Northanger; but after the first stage she had been indebted to the post-masters for the names of the places which were then to conduct her to it; so great had been her ignorance of her route.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We shall now journey south through the woods until we come out upon the Christchurch road, and so onwards, hoping to-night to reach the castle of Sir William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, of which Sir Nigel Loring is constable.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag—I come back tired to death.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)