Definitions

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  • proper noun A market town straddling the county border between Antrim and Down.
  • proper noun A city and administrative region in Northern Ireland.

Etymologies

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lios + Burn (The fort on the river)

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Examples

  • The two dead soldiers were from the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, based in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

    How Blair is killing our soldiers Richard 2006

  • "These savings were to be used to fund new cat adoption centers to help cats in areas of greatest need in the UK, such as Lisburn in Northern Ireland and Felling, near Gateshead."

    unknown title 2009

  • There are at least two indirect connections here with the recent attacks on the Romanian Roma in the University/Lisburn Road area of Belfast.

    Racism on the bigger canvas O'Neill 2009

  • More recently, Boyd opened a bricks and mortar burger joint on trendy Lisburn Road.

    Belfast's top 10 budget eats 2011

  • The John Hewitt carries beers from Lisburn's Hilden Brewery, Ireland's oldest independent from £3.30 a pint – its eponymous bitter is a moderately tasty, pleasantly hoppy amber session beer – and will host the Great Northern Irish Beer & Cider Festival, from 4 July to Saturday 9.

    Belfast's top 10 budget eats 2011

  • There is the usual muttering that the relevant minister, the DUP's Edwin Poots, opposes the transfer of Dunmurry from Lisburn to Belfast.

    So, that coalition then loveandgarbage 2010

  • The UDA chief said that if anyone wanted a vision of where the organisation was going they should visit a community project run by Halliday on the Old Warren Estate in Lisburn.

    Ireland: UDA questions police effectiveness as loyalists get restless 2010

  • Meanwhile, the rail line linking Belfast to Dublin remains closed between Lisburn and Newry due to violence in Lurgan.

    Police chief to publish images of Northern Ireland rioters 2010

  • This can only mean one thing: NIR will be running a bus substitution service between Portadown and Lisburn this weekend.

    Just like old times Johnny Guitar 2009

  • This can only mean one thing: NIR will be running a bus substitution service between Portadown and Lisburn this weekend.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Johnny Guitar 2009

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