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Meaning of Cavendish | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈkævəndɪʃ

Definitions

  1. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
    uncountable
  2. A surname.
    countable, uncountable
  3. The most commonly sold banana; one of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.
    countable
  4. A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046).
    countable, uncountable
  5. A number of places in Canada:
    countable, uncountable
  6. A locality in Alberta.
    countable, uncountable
  7. A local service district in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
    countable, uncountable
  8. A community, ward and former township in Trent Lakes, Peterborough County, Ontario.
    countable, uncountable
  9. A rural community of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
    countable, uncountable
  10. An unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States.
    countable, uncountable
  11. A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
    countable, uncountable
  12. A township in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes.”
“"But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said.”
“No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "”
“Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred.”
“It was always an augury of foul weather in Livingstone's temper when, instead of the decent evening cigar, he smoked the short black brule-gueule, loaded to the muzzle with cavendish.”
“Come, I'll trate ye to a taste o' me cavendish, which is better than growlin' in yer hammock at the muskaities, poor things, as don't know no better."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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