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mayo

1

[ mey-oh ]

noun

, Informal.


Mayo

2

[ mey-oh ]

noun

  1. Charles Horace, 1865–1939, and his brother William James, 1861–1939, U.S. surgeons.
  2. a county in NW Connaught province, in the NW Republic of Ireland. 2,084 sq. mi. (5,400 sq. km). : Castlebar.

Mayo

1

/ ˈmeɪəʊ /

noun

  1. MayoWilliam Worrall18191911M MayoWilliam James18611939M MayoCharles Horace18651939M MayoCharles William Mayo18981968M a family of US medical practitioners. They pioneered group practice and established (1903) the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Foremost among them were William Worrall Mayo (1819–1911), his sons William James Mayo (1861–1939) and Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939), and Charles's son, Charles William Mayo (1898–1968)


Mayo

2

/ ˈmeɪəʊ /

noun

  1. a county of NW Republic of Ireland, in NW Connacht province, on the Atlantic: has many offshore islands and several large lakes. County town: Castlebar. Pop: 117 446 (2002). Area: 5397 sq km (2084 sq miles)

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mayo1

By shortening; -o

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Example Sentences

In her struggle to find her daughter, Esther becomes one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

Tamara Loertscher went to the Eau Claire Mayo Clinic in early August when she thought she was pregnant.

Though the math gets a little fuzzy from here, Mayo Shattuck divorced his wife of almost 20 years, Jennifer, in 1995.

Photographer Virginia Mayo has been documenting the town for more than a decade.

However, according to the Mayo Clinic, 75 percent of VBAC attempts are successful.

They landed at Killala, in Mayo, and were not a little surprised at the state of things existing there.

He was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1824, and received the rudiments of education in his native town.

Gid turned into a road leading to the right, and looking back he saw that Mayo was riding straight ahead.

If we had settled upon killing that fellow Mayo, everything would have been all right.

All day Wash Sanders and his men had been sitting about, speculating, with but one stir of excitement, the boom of Mayo's cannon.

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