murray

English Thesaurus

1. a southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	river,
definition	:	a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) (noun.object)

part meronym	:	australia, commonwealth of australia,
definition	:	a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony (noun.location)

part meronym	:	australia,
definition	:	the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean (noun.object)

2. Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	lexicographer, lexicologist,
definition	:	a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	philologist, philologue,
definition	:	a humanist specializing in classical scholarship (noun.person)

3. British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957) (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	classical scholar, classicist,
definition	:	a student of ancient Greek and Latin (noun.person)