Devonshire

[ dev-uhn-sheer, -sher ]

noun

1. a county in SW England. 2,591 sq. mi. (6,710 sq. km).

Devonshire

/ ˈdɛvənʃɪə; -ʃə /

noun

1. Devonshire, 8th Duke of18331908MBritishPOLITICS: politician 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)

Example Sentences

Thanks to mechanization, farm productivity nearly tripled over the next 20 years, to the point that five acres of wheat grown in Kansas could be produced and shipped to London at a lower cost than producing one acre in Devonshire, England.

From Washington Post

In fact, Devonshire has more rooftop solar installations than any other region in England.

From The Daily Beast

Chatwin's tone throughout Under the Sun  recalls the Duchess of Devonshire's epistolary adieu, "In tearing haste—."

From The Daily Beast

I have been collecting some most valuable information on (looking round at them) lunacy in the—er—county of Devonshire.

From Project Gutenberg

It is now the property of the Duke of Devonshire, who seeks to check further decay and opens it to the public without charge.

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In Devonshire, particularly among the farmers and poorer classes, the ridged coffin is very general, the end being gabled.

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It is remarkable that Devonshire was, and that Marlborough was not, one of the Dissentients.

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Devonshire's visitors got tremendously well fed, with fish items of especial excellence.

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