Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: surrey
IPA transcription: [s'ɝi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: surrey
    Meaning: a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats
  • Synonyms: Surrey
    Meaning: a county in southeastern England on the Thames
Usage examples
  • "We will come for you in the surrey at ten o'clock, and all drive together to the back of Brayley's yard and take all the melons we want."
  • An invalid gentleman, who resided for some years on Ham Common, in Surrey, had a dog which distinctly pronounced John, William, and two or three other words.
  • And so angry and energetic was the little man that in a brief space the melon patch was a scene of awful devastation, and the surrey contained all the fruit that survived the massacre.
  • In the early part of the present century, William Cobbett, in his delightful book, "Rural Rides," speaking of the heathy headlands and vast hollow of Hindhead, in Surrey, calls it "certainly the most villainous spot God ever made."