Gresham

[ gresh-uhm ]

noun
  1. Sir Thomas, 1519?–79, English merchant and financier.

  2. a town in NW Oregon.

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How to use Gresham in a sentence

  • How fast the crowded omnibuses dash past with their loads of young Greshams and future rulers of Lombard Street!

    Old and New London | Walter Thornbury
  • Few places in this part of Surrey are more attractive than this old home of the Greshams.

  • Soon after that the Greshams went away, and in an hour's time or so, Miss Dunstable was allowed to drag herself to her own bed.

    Framley Parsonage | Anthony Trollope
  • None of the Greshams must meet Mary Thorne; that was the edict sent about the country; and the edict was well understood.

    Doctor Thorne | Anthony Trollope
  • The woman took this house, with its gear and garnishings, just as the last of the Greshams had left it when he died.

    Local Color | Irvin S. Cobb

British Dictionary definitions for Gresham

Gresham

/ (ˈɡrɛʃəm) /


noun
  1. Sir Thomas. ?1519–79, English financier, who founded the Royal Exchange in London (1568)

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