devon

/ˈdɛv.ən/

name 5noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

general, wonderful

We had a wonderful Devon holiday last summer exploring the coastal villages.

VERB + DEVON

features, named, saying, shopping, trouble

My cousin named Devon works at the shopping centre downtown.

DEVON + NOUN

flanagan, james, jordan, pastrami, scenery

The Devon scenery was so breathtaking that we decided to extend our holiday by another week.

PREP.

I spent my summer holidays in Devon exploring the beautiful coastline and charming villages.

Definitions

name

A county of England bordered by Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, the Bristol Channel and the English Channel.

A river in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.

A river in Clackmannanshire council area and Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, a tributary of the Forth.

A place in Canada:

noun

One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in Devon, England.

noun

A type of processed meat sausage.

Initial suspicions pointed at both food and water, narrowing down after a while to fritz (devon, as it is known in some states), a popular, bland, processed meat.

Elsewhere the Roy Slaven signature range of smallgoods – marketed with the shout-out line, ‘Roy: still doing things with meat butchers only dream of!’ − has captured the imagination of an increasingly time-poor community looking for top-shelf short cuts in cuisine solutions. When I last looked, Roy had personally signed nearly 5.9 million salamis, chorizos and devon logs this year.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a county in southwestern England

devonshire

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

"Is that his real name?" I asked, touching the corner of the picture. "Devil?" "I named him Devon James Jordan, but my oldest―my girl Sheena―she had trouble saying Devon and it came out Devil, and tha

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According to the attorney general’s office, Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan was arrested. She has worked for the office for about seven years and is currently assigned to the Appella

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Initial suspicions pointed at both food and water, narrowing down after a while to fritz (devon, as it is known in some states), a popular, bland, processed meat.

Wiktionary

One of our firm favourites both for the quality and the taste of Ricky Roessler′s smallgoods – and the sheer joy of shopping here. No devon or pastrami, though, just plenty of bratwurst:[…].

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Young Baskerville stared eagerly out of the window, and cried aloud with delight as he recognised the familiar features of the Devon scenery.

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