Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
greeley
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'ili]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
Greeley, Horace_Greeley
Meaning:
United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872)
Usage examples
HORACE GREELEY.
Mr. Greeley worked sixteen hours a day.
Greeley will hold the first place with posterity on the roll of emancipation."
Going to Westhaven, Vt., Mr. Greeley obtained work on a farm, and moved his family thither.
Mrs. Greeley was a great reader of such books as she could obtain, and remembered all she read.
Mr. Greeley received nearly three million votes, while General Grant received a half million majority.
Young Greeley, now twenty-three, and deeply interested in politics, determined to start a weekly paper.
It requires no great discernment to see from whence Horace Greeley derived his intense love for reading, and his boundless energy.
Among the hills of New Hampshire, in a lonely, unpainted house, Horace Greeley was born, Feb. 3, 1811, the third of seven children.
No criticism was too scathing; but Mr. Greeley took the denunciations like a hero, because he had done what his conscience approved.