Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A granite island of western Scotland in the Firth of Clyde. It is a scenic resort area noted for its hunting and fishing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A spider. Also called arrand.

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  • proper noun Alternative name of Caucasian Albania.
  • proper noun An island off the southwest coast of Scotland.
  • proper noun A male given name of modern Scottish usage, transferred from the place name.

Etymologies

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Middle Persian

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Examples

  • House prices are at silly levels, but Arran is still beautiful, the sea still clear and you can see seals on the rocks as you drive into town.

    Archive 2004-08-29 Laban 2004

  • In the space of a week it will call at Brodick Castle in Arran, at Inveraray, at the Islands of Colonsay, Staffa and Iona, at Kisimul Castle in Barra and Dunvegan in Skye, and the Garden of Inverewe in Wester Ross.

    St. Andrew's Day Special Meeting 1961

  • /[Page 372] /imagining, all afternoon, over Ayr and environs (Arran from the sea sand, in the hazy east wind nightfall, grand and grim.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • The surfer most falsely enamored of Autumn, Arran a.k.a.

    shrimp Rachel Cohn 2005

  • The surfer most falsely enamored of Autumn, Arran a.k.a.

    shrimp Rachel Cohn 2005

  • The surfer most falsely enamored of Autumn, Arran a.k.a.

    shrimp Rachel Cohn 2005

  • The surfer most falsely enamored of Autumn, Arran a.k.a.

    shrimp Rachel Cohn 2005

  • At length returning home, he obtained of Ængus, king of Munster, a grant of the isle of Arra, or Arn, wherein he founded a great monastery, in which he trained up many disciples, illustrious for sanctity, insomuch that the island was called Arran of the Saints.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • “They are likely to motion a marriage you know where”; of Arran, that is, with Elizabeth.

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • "They are likely to motion a marriage you know where"; of Arran, that is, with

    John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

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