surrey
pronunciation
How to pronounce surrey in British English:
UK [ˈsʌri]
How to pronounce surrey in American English:
US [ˈsɚri, ˈsʌri]
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- Noun:
- a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats
Word Origin
- Surrey
- Old English suþrige (722), literally "Southerly District" (relative to Middlesex), from suðer, from suð (see south) + -ge "district" (see yeoman). Bede and others use it as a folk-name, as if "People from Surrey." Meaning "two-seated, four-wheeled pleasure carriage" is from 1895, short for Surrey cart, an English pleasure cart (introduced in U.S. 1872), named for Surrey, England, where it first was made.
Example
- 1. In the calm of an early spring morning in leafy surrey , these words seem sensible .
- 2. Surrey , buckinghamshire , hampshire and berkshire are now among the top 35 most expensive property areas in the world .
- 3. " A midsummer night 's dream " is at the rose theatre , kingston , surrey , until march 20th .
- 4. And a research group based at the university of surrey , in england , hopes that in a few years it will be possible to offer it to them .
- 5. And martin phelps , director of the surrey based company hymn technology , said that the hymnal device is already helping churches to revive flagging congregations .