Definitions

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  • proper noun A very rare Scottish surname of unknown origin
  • proper noun A novel (and subsequent series) by Walter Scott
  • proper noun A railway station in Edinburgh
  • proper noun Any of several placenames in several countries

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Examples

  • Waverley "asserts identity of denotation between _Scott_ and _the author of Waverley_.

    Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bertrand Russell 1921

  • The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley – Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.

    Waverley 2004

  • They were gone, and that was why I flew immediately from the house to the old place in Waverley Avenue.

    The Filigree Ball 1903

  • "The house in Waverley Avenue?" she objected wildly, with the first signs of positive terror I had ever beheld in her.

    The Filigree Ball 1903

  • He asked if she was Mrs. Jeffrey's sister, and when she nodded and gasped 'Yes,' he blurted out that Mrs. Jeffrey was dead; that he had just come from the old house in Waverley Avenue, when she had just been found.

    The Filigree Ball 1903

  • The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley

    The Waverley 1877

  • The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley-Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley-Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.

    Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley-Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.

    Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley-Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.

    Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

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