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derby
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Derby \Der"by\ (?; usually ? in Eng.; 85), n. A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780. Derby Day , the day of the annual race for the Derby stakes, -- Wednesday ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Derby is a city in Derbyshire , England, on the banks of the River Derwent . In 2011 , it had a population of 248,700. Derby was settled by Romans – who established the town of Derventio – Saxons and Vikings, who made Derby one of the Five Boroughs of the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE local ▪ Despite the pressure of tomorrow's Sun local derby against Roma, Gazza has managed to retain his outrageous sense of humour. ▪ A real sparkler from David Penney gave the local derby a firework finish and ...
Usage examples of derby.
Derby day minus five, and the number of people standing on the backstretch rail had grown with the increased number of horses appearing on the track.
The barns were closed to people not directly concerned with the Derby horses.
She had met her first husband while working as a carhop at the Brown Derby Drive-In in Los Feliz in the late 1940s, while still in her teens.
Walden wrote a popular book, A Dog-Puncher in the Yukon, and he and his Chinook dogs - the famous sire himself and a team of his offspring - won the first Eastern International Sled Dog Derby in 1922.
Hotel Derby and Grand Hotel Regina, which flanked the Grindelwald train station, as he crossed the platform toward the cogwheel train.
Thankfully, Valerian people loved their demolition derbies and had pitched in.
He had won three Kentucky Derbies, and on Saturday he would be out for his fourth win in ten years.
He, too, had won three Derbies and wanted to make it four on Saturday.
His jockey was a grim-faced veteran of twelve Derbies who had never had a winner.
I have taken some liberties with the geography of Derbyshire and with the city of Derby itself.
He is named Gilyak, and was the winner of the Peking Derby for China ponies.
Seen a Hester Bateman inkstandish pledged for a half-a-crown Derby roll-up bet.
An arrangement between Lord Derby and the Peelite financier was much talked of, and scandalized the country.
The Prince Pretender reduces Carlisle, and penetrates as far as Derby.
Some said that he escaped in the disguise of a scrubwoman and would return one day to lead resurgent hordes of derby and cigar.