Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of southwest Scotland at the mouth of the Ayr River on the Firth of Clyde.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An open sea-beach; a sand-bank. Also spelled
air .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A town in
Ayrshire ,Scotland
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a port in southwestern Scotland
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Examples
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I went to boarding school in Ayr on the west coast of Scotland.
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The cover of that book is more reminiscent of of the beach in Ayr in summertime than Hawaii – looks like a Glaswegian family on holidays!
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In a speech to the Scottish Conservatives in Ayr yesterday, Mr Cameron said:
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Charles Cumming was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1971.
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In his keynote speech to the Scottish Conservative Conference in Ayr, Mr Cameron said:
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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The "Gibson" of this visit to Ayr is the same "silverheaded Packman" noted above.
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"But how," inquired he, turning to Monteith, "did you happen to be in Ayr at this period? and how, above all, amongst the slaughtered Southrons at the palace?"
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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That in Ayr jail, the prisoners lay on straw, till Mr Neild supplied blankets from his own private charity.
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The trilogy is set in the land of Ayr, which is dominated by the River Wynnd and its tributaries.
Fantasy Challenge #5: The One Kingdom, Sean Russell « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010
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This army was also to relieve our wants, I mean those of my uncle the Earl of Pembroke, who for some time before had lain with a considerable force in the town called Ayr, near the old Caledonian
Castle Dangerous 2008
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