NANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nancy mean? 

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

1. a city in northeastern France in Lorraine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in northeastern France in Lorraine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

Nancy, she fell upon her knees, and cried bitterly; and your brother, he walked about the room, and said he did not know what to do.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I heard that Barclay had married Nancy, and that he was rising rapidly in the regiment, but even that did not make me speak.

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

Part of the Shingopana skeleton was excavated in 2002 by scientists affiliated with the Rukwa Rift Basin Project, an international effort led by Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine researchers Patrick O'Connor and Nancy Stevens.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

“I don't, indeed, my dear boy,” he returned; “but I mean to say that they are managed and decided by the same set of people, down in that same Doctors' Commons. You shall go there one day, and find them blundering through half the nautical terms in Young's Dictionary, apropos of the “Nancy” having run down the “Sarah Jane”, or Mr. Peggotty and the Yarmouth boatmen having put off in a gale of wind with an anchor and cable to the “Nelson”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And not a creature knowing a syllable of the matter, except Nancy!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I had rather that Nancy and my old pals should think of Harry Wood as having died with a straight back, than see him living and crawling with a stick like a chimpanzee.

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

'Lord! here comes your beau, Nancy,' my cousin said t'other day, when she saw him crossing the street to the house.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Then Nancy fainted, and I caught up the key of the door from her hand, intending to unlock it and get help.

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

The carriage was at the door ready to take my poor cousins away, and they were just stepping in as he came off; poor Lucy in such a condition, he says, she could hardly walk; and Nancy, she was almost as bad.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Colonel Barclay had married at the time when he was a sergeant, and his wife, whose maiden name was Miss Nancy Devoy, was the daughter of a former colour-sergeant in the same corps.

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