Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American confederacy formerly inhabiting southeast Ontario around Lake Simcoe, with small present-day populations in Quebec and northeast Oklahoma, where they are known as Wyandot. The Huron traded extensively throughout eastern Canada until the confederacy was destroyed by war with the Iroquois in the mid-1600s.
- noun The Iroquoian language of the Huron.
- Lake,The second largest of the Great Lakes, between southeast Ontario, Canada, and eastern Michigan. Connected at its northwestern end with Lake Michigan through the Straits of Mackinac, it drains Lake Superior via the St. Marys River and at its southern end empties into Lake Erie.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Spanish-American name of sundry animals of the family Mustelidæ: specifically applied to the grison.
- noun One of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquois family, living west to Lake Huron, which is named from them.
- noun [lowercase] An Anglicized equivalent of the generic name Huro, applied by Cuvier to the large-mouthed black-bass, Micropterus salmoides.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Father Brebeuf could only find that the souls of suicides and those killed in war were supposed to live apart from the others; "but as to the souls of scoundrels," he adds, "so far from being shut out, they are the welcome guests, though for that matter if it were not so, their paradise would be a total desert, as Huron and scoundrel (_Huron et larron_) are one and the same." [
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Today as I drove along the lake road from western Cleveland to the marina in Huron, an hour and 15 each way, I thought about the conversations here about your lake.
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They are so familiar to us: "O Little Town of Bethlehem," "Deck the Halls," the rollicking "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," and, of course, Canada's first Christmas carol, written in Huron in the seventeenth century by Father Jean de Brebeuf - "Jesus Is Born!" with its haunting words
Christmas Luncheon 1983
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Thereupon the name Huron was coined, and it was later applied indiscriminately to all the nation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The greatest length of Lake Huron is 200 miles; the greatest breadth is 160 miles; mean depth, 300ft; elevation, 574ft.; area 20,000 square miles.
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He made no converts while a prisoner, but he baptized a Huron catechumen at the stake, to the great fury of the surrounding Iroquois.
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman 1858
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"Not by birth, though adopted in that tribe; I think his birthplace was farther north, and he is one of those you call a Huron".
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Sir John Stephen Willison was born in Huron County, Ontario.
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Many of Munro’s stories are set in Huron County, Ontario.
alice munro | withdraws from canadian prize « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Many of Munro’s stories are set in Huron County, Ontario.
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