Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hudson
IPA transcription: [h'ʌdsən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Hudson, Hudson_River
    Meaning: a New York river; flows southward into New York Bay; explored by Henry Hudson early in the 17th century
Usage examples
  • They sought out Roderick Finlayson, chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company.
  • Thus in the great game of municipal rivalry did Okochee match that famous drawing card, the Hudson.
  • Pemmican cost sixteen cents a pound, and a pair of duffel Hudson's Bay blankets cost eight or ten dollars.
  • "It doesn't look as if I would need that palace on the Hudson, but I appreciate your offer, just the same."
  • The same process filled up the Valley of the Mohawk to more than 100 feet in depth and also raised the Valley of the Hudson.
  • The thought came--if you cannot trust God for this, when Hudson Taylor could trust for so much more, are you worthy to be a missionary?
  • These things came about through a fatal resemblance of the river Cooloosa to the Hudson, as set forth and expounded by a Northern tourist.
  • The Overlanders were to enter the Rockies by the Yellowhead Pass, which had been discovered long ago by Jasper Hawse, of the Hudson's Bay Company.
  • The Hudson's Bay men had thought nothing of this. Other treasure-seekers had come to New Caledonia before and had gone back to San Francisco disappointed.
  • He took an active part in the campaign on the Hudson, and in the attack on Trenton, at the head of a small detachment, he captured one of the British batteries.