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

  • A moorland plateau of southwest England. It is a popular tourist area with notable prehistoric ruins.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.
  • noun A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.

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  • proper noun A national park in Devon and Somerset, southern England.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun horned sheep of Devon; valued for mutton
  • noun stocky breed of pony with a fawn-colored nose

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Examples

  • Exmoor is wet like a bath sponge; no use ditching it for drainage.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • The point of the anecdote is contradicted by what I saw in Exmoor, and exactly opposite to what has happened legislatively, but it still makes good telling.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • The point of the anecdote is contradicted by what I saw in Exmoor, and exactly opposite to what has happened legislatively, but it still makes good telling.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • Exmoor is wet like a bath sponge; no use ditching it for drainage.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • Mr. Fothergill lives with his wife and two sons in Bristol, a short car trip from a national park called Exmoor, where they spend holidays in a thatched cottage built in the 11th century.

    A Wildlife Filmmaker Goes After Bigger Prey 2008

  • Devon hotelier forced to take down head of the Exmoor Emperor A hotel owner who placed the head of a stag known as the Exmoor Emperor on display has been forced to take it down amid fears she could be targeted by animal rights protesters.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • 'Exmoor Emperor's head' removed over fears of attack by animal rights protestors A hotel owner who displayed what could be the head of a deer called the Exmoor Emperor was forced to remove it over fears she could be targeted by animal rights protestors.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andy Bloxham 2011

  • Her latest book is called the Exmoor Files, in which she describes how she turned her back on London society to patronise the shit out of the good people of Exmoor.

    Eejit Jones' Diary juliette 2009

  • Her latest book is called the Exmoor Files, in which she describes how she turned her back on London society to patronise the shit out of the good people of Exmoor.

    Archive 2009-08-01 juliette 2009

  • Not least is Stanley Johnson from Minehead, Somerset, who hopes that any Department for Transport consultation "takes fully into account the views of those who live in isolated rural communities such as Exmoor," and asks "What on earth has this got to do with Europe?"

    A question of attitude Richard 2007

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