Romney Definition

rŏmnē
romneys
noun
A large hornless sheep of a breed developed in England, raised for its meat and long wool and valued for its ability to thrive in damp pastures.
American Heritage
pronoun

A surname.

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Other Word Forms of Romney

Noun

Singular:
Romney
Plural:
romneys

Origin of Romney

  • From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), a compound of an unknown first element rumen and Old English Ä“a (“river").

    From Wiktionary

  • After the Romney Marsh a wetland area of Kent where the breed was developed

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Romney Sentence Examples

  • The liberty of Romney Marsh has petty and general sessions.

  • The only alien priories granted were Abberbury in Oxfordshire, Wedon Pinkney in Northamptonshire, Romney in Kent, and St Clare and Llangenith in Wales, all very small affairs, single manors and rectories, and these did not form a quarter of the whole endowment.

  • As the name implies, the ports originally constituting the body were only five in number - Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich; but to these were afterwards added the "ancient towns" of Winchelsea and Rye with the same privileges, and a good many other places, both corporate and non-corporate, which, with the title of limb or member, held a subordinate position.

  • The Robinson anemometer, invented (1846) by Dr Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory, is the best-known and most generally used instrument, and belongs to the first of these.

  • It should be mentioned that while Sunderland was thus serving James II., he was receiving a pension from France, and through his wife's lover, Henry Sidney, afterwards earl of Romney, he was furnishing William of Orange with particulars about affairs in England.

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