SOMERSET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Somerset mean? 

• SOMERSET (noun)
  The noun SOMERSET has 2 senses:

1. a county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel

2. an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return

  Familiarity information: SOMERSET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMERSET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

flip; somersault; somersaulting; somerset; summersault; summerset

Hypernyms ("somerset" is a kind of...):

tumble (an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "somerset"):

flip-flop (a backward somersault)

 Context examples 

The second day brought them into the cherished, or the prohibited, county of Somerset, for as such was it dwelt on by turns in Marianne's imagination; and in the forenoon of the third they drove up to Cleveland.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer's hands; but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the information of himself and his family, these words, after the date of Mary's birth— Married, December 16, 1810, Charles, son and heir of Charles Musgrove, Esq. of Uppercross, in the county of Somerset, and by inserting most accurately the day of the month on which he had lost his wife.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset, and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:—Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)