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COTSWOLDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cotswolds mean? 

COTSWOLDS (noun)
  The noun COTSWOLDS has 1 sense:

1. a range of low hills in southwestern Englandplay

  Familiarity information: COTSWOLDS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COTSWOLDS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A range of low hills in southwestern England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Cotswold Hills; Cotswolds

Instance hypernyms:

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

Holonyms ("Cotswolds" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)


 Context examples 


From the Wrekin in the Welsh marches to the Cotswolds in the west or Butser in the south, there was no hill-top from which the peasant might not have seen the bright shimmer of arms, the toss and flutter of plume and of pensil.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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