DEVONSHIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Devonshire mean? 

• DEVONSHIRE (noun)
  The noun DEVONSHIRE has 1 sense:

1. a county in southwestern England

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVONSHIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A county in southwestern England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Devon; Devonshire

Instance hypernyms:

county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

You must have known, that while you were enjoying yourself in Devonshire pursuing fresh schemes, always gay, always happy, she was reduced to the extremest indigence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Duke of Devonshire lives near.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A minute later we were all seated in a comfortable landau, and were rattling through the quaint old Devonshire city.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Somebody wanted to recall the name of a place in Devonshire, and only Sophy knew it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A heavy scene however awaited me, before I could leave Devonshire;—I was engaged to dine with you on that very day; some apology was therefore necessary for my breaking this engagement.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I went to Devonshire with the conviction that Fitzroy Simpson was the true culprit, although, of course, I saw that the evidence against him was by no means complete.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Lord bless me, yes!” said Traddles—“by the Reverend Horace—to Sophy—down in Devonshire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was the offer of a small house, on very easy terms, belonging to a relation of her own, a gentleman of consequence and property in Devonshire.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

We had only been a few hours in Devonshire, and that he should give up an investigation which he had begun so brilliantly was quite incomprehensible to me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)