SURREY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Surrey mean? 

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

1. a county in southeastern England on the Thames

2. a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats

  Familiarity information: SURREY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURREY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A county in southeastern England on the Thames

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Holonyms ("Surrey" is a member of...):

Home Counties (the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

 Context examples 

He shook hands with Holmes and introduced his comrade as Inspector Baynes, of the Surrey Constabulary.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, sir, near Farnham, on the borders of Surrey.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Remember that I have breathed thirty miles of Surrey air this morning.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went with him over Westminster Bridge, and parted from him on the Surrey shore.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It’s seven miles to Hampshire border and about two to Surrey,” said Jackson.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No three tramps that one could have met in a Surrey lane could have looked more hopeless and bedraggled.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, Miss Violet, what has happened to you, near Farnham, on the borders of Surrey?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was nearly six o’clock before we found ourselves in the pretty Surrey village of Esher, with Inspector Baynes as our companion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. See that light among the trees?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)