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Romney

Definitions

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

  • noun A large hornless sheep of a breed developed in England, raised for its meat and long wool and valued for its ability to thrive in damp pastures.
  • George,British painter of portraits and historical scenes, such as Death of General Wolfe (1763).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Romany.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A surname.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After the Romney Marsh, a wetland area of Kent where the breed was developed.]

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From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), a compound of an unknown first element rumen and Old English ēa ("river").

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Examples

  • MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think Michigan is going to vote for a Romney again.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2008 2008

  • MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think Michigan is going to vote for a Romney again.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2008 2008

  • BARBARA COMSTOCK, SENIOR ADVISER, ROMNEY CAMPAIGN: Well, actually I would -- Bill, focus on the national numbers, but if you look at numbers like California, where obviously the biggest state that we're going to be dealing with tomorrow, the momentum actually is with Governor Romney.

    CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2008 2008

  • MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think Michigan is going to vote for a Romney again.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2008 2008

  • School_; Romney, _Life of George Romney_; Rossetti, _Fine

    A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894

  • ROMNEY -- Chase Samuel Hill, 25, of Romney, died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on Sunday, June 21, 2009.

    unknown title 2009

  • New York - Team Romney reportedly plans to brand a top GOP rival as a "serial flip-flopper" - a label Romney himself has tried to shake for years

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The rampant and ravagin 'Romney is rapidly becomin' a force to reckon with.

    Romney PAC raises $1.6M in six months 2009

  • Because to deport oneself would not be deportation at all, it seems maybe the word Romney was looking for was "to emigrate", "to return", or "to leave".

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Cristina Costantini 2012

  • The phrase "Romney won Iowa," for instance, was used more than 250 times in mainstream press accounts.

    NYT > Home Page By NATE SILVER 2012

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