Terry

Definitions

1. A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper.
   countable, uncountable
2. A terrorist
   euphemistic
3. A surname originating as a patronymic from the medieval Norman given name Thierry, a cognate of the English Derek.
4. Any makeshift cloth nappy folded from a large piece of absorbent fabric and held in place by a nappy pin or nappy fastener; a flat nappy.
   Commonwealth, countable, dated, uncountable
5. A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname, or a diminutive of Terence or of any of its alternative forms.
6. A male given name from Latin derived from the Latin for the third ("tertius") given to a third child or a child whose name has the suffix III.
7. A female given name, diminutive of Teresa or any of its alternative forms.
8. A number of places in the United States:
9. An unincorporated community in Leopold Township, Perry County, Indiana.
10. A township in Finney County, Kansas.
11. An unincorporated community in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
12. A town in Hinds County, Mississippi.
13. An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri.
14. A ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
15. A small town, the county seat of Prairie County, Montana.
16. An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, South Dakota.
17. An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

Equivalents

Examples

“Tao was a voracious consumer of fantasy books like⟳ Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. When a class was boring, he doodled intricate maps of imaginary lands.”

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