TYNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tyne mean? 

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

1. a river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

River Tyne; Tyne; Tyne River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

"Yes, bonny wee thing, I'll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I’ve not seen a fight since I saw Tom Tyne, the tailor, kill Earl fourteen years ago.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some twenty well-known prize-fighters, including my friend Bill Warr, Black Richmond, Maddox, The Pride of Westminster, Tom Belcher, Paddington Jones, Tough Tom Blake, Symonds the ruffian, Tyne the tailor, and others, were stationed in the outer ring as beaters.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)