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Derby
1[ dur-bee; British dahr-bee ]
Derby
2[ dur-bee; British dahr-bee ]
noun
- a race for three-year-old horses that is run annually at Epsom Downs, near London, England: first run in 1780.
- any of certain other important annual horse races, usually for three-year-old horses, especially the Kentucky Derby.
- (lowercase) a race or contest, usually one open to all who wish to enter and offering a prize for the winner.
- (lowercase) any endeavor or venture regarded as a competition:
to win the gubernatorial derby.
- (lowercase) Also called bowler. a stiff felt hat with rounded crown and narrow brim, worn chiefly by men.
Derby
1/ ˈdɑːbɪ /
noun
- Derby, Earl of17991869MBritishPOLITICS: statesman Earl of. title of Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley. 1799–1869, British statesman; Conservative prime minister (1852; 1858–59; 1866–68)
Derby
2/ ˈdɑːbɪ /
noun
- a city in central England, in Derby unitary authority, Derbyshire: engineering industries (esp aircraft engines and railway rolling stock); university (1991). Pop: 229 407 (2001)
- a unitary authority in central England, in Derbyshire. Pop: 233 200 (2003 est). Area: 78 sq km (30 sq miles)
- a firm-textured pale-coloured type of cheese
- sage Derbya green-and-white Derby cheese flavoured with sage
Derby
3/ ˈdɜːrbɪ; ˈdɑːbɪ /
noun
- the Derbyan annual horse race run at Epsom Downs, Surrey, since 1780: one of the English flat-racing classics
- any of various other horse races
- local Derbya football match between two teams from the same area
derby
4/ ˈdɜːrbɪ /
noun
- a stiff felt hat with a rounded crown and narrow curved brim Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)bowler
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Example Sentences
Back-to-back Derby winner Yoenis Céspedes will now suit up as an American League outfield reserve.
We play dodge ball, ride giant tricycles, and craft homespun jalopies for the adult soapbox derby.
So please enjoy “One Red Rose: The Green Kid on Middleground Plucks a Derby Trophy,” which ran on May 6, 1950.
Little Bill Boland was only 18 when he rode Middleground to victory in the 1950 Kentucky Derby.
So when you take that first frosty sip of your mint julep in celebration of the Kentucky Derby, enjoy it.
Except, therefore, for an interval of about three years my childhood and youth were spent at Derby.
Outside Derby station was a ticket platform at which all incoming trains stopped for the collection of tickets.
We resided at Derby in a terrace on the outskirt of the town, much to my dislike, for monotonous rows of houses I have ever hated.
Said to be aristocratically connected, he was the admiration of all and the darling of the young ladies of Derby.
Amongst all my fellow clerks I remember one only who resembled as a borrower some of my quondam associates at Derby.
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