Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital and largest city of Ireland, in the eastern part of the country on the Irish Sea. Founded by the Norse in the ninth century, it was under English control after 1171. In the 1900s, as Ireland gained its independence, Dublin emerged as a literary and cultural center.
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- proper noun The capital of the
Republic of Ireland . - proper noun One of the counties of Ireland.
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- noun capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic
Etymologies
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Examples
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DUBLIN — Ireland mourned the shock loss Friday of one of the nation's best-known broadcasters, Gerry Ryan, who was found dead in his Dublin apartment after failing to broadcast his morning radio show, an Irish institution.
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DUBLIN — Thousands of people marched through Dublin on Saturday, demanding the Irish government default on the country ' s debts, call an immediate election, and reverse plans for tough budget cuts and financial support from the International Monetary Fund.
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DUBLIN — A Slovak man unwittingly carried hidden explosives on board a weekend flight to Dublin after a Slovakian airport-security test went awry, Irish officials ... var news_amount = 5;
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DUBLIN: The most dramatic development in the Dublin Archdiocese happened when Summorum Pontificum took effect.
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DUBLIN: The most dramatic development in the Dublin Archdiocese happened when Summorum Pontificum took effect.
The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum
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DUBLIN -- Irish budget airline Ryanair Holdings PLC said Thursday that it plans to cut aircraft and jobs based at Dublin airport, blaming a new air-passenger tax from the Irish government.
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DIARMUID MARTIN, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN: The archdiocese of Dublin failed to recognize the theft of childhood which survivors endured, and that the diocese failed in its responses to those children, when they or their parents had the courage to come forward, compounding the damage done to their innocence.
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DUBLIN -- Ireland's ruling Fianna Fail party Saturday was battered in local elections across the country and two by-elections in Dublin for seats in the Irish parliament as voters effectively withdrew their support for the embattled government.
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We are at a loss what to make of this report from Dublin; but perhaps some more learned authority can explain it: '_Dublin, April 9,
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852
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AN eminent spirit-merchant in Dublin announced, in one of the Irish papers, that he has still a small quantity of the whiskey on sale _which was drunk by his late Majesty while in Dublin_.
yarb commented on the word Dublin
Today I learned my 15 year-old daughter has been pronouncing it as though it were French.
December 14, 2020
plethora commented on the word Dublin
I'm gonna start doing that
December 25, 2020
yarb commented on the word Dublin
Me too Pleth, let's start a trend
February 14, 2021