HEREFORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hereford mean? 

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

1. hardy English breed of cattle raised extensively in United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEREFORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hardy English breed of cattle raised extensively in United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hereford; whiteface

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

beef; beef cattle (cattle that are reared for their meat)

 Context examples 

We have still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?

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

We are going to Lord Longtown's, near Hereford, for a fortnight.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a room had already been engaged for us.

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

It was upon the behaviour of these very slight acquaintance that all her present happiness depended; and while Mrs. Morland was successfully confirming her own opinions by the justness of her own representations, Catherine was silently reflecting that now Henry must have arrived at Northanger; now he must have heard of her departure; and now, perhaps, they were all setting off for Hereford.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)