Dartmouth definition

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(place) Former city in S Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of Halifax.
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A port in Devon, England.
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A town in Massachusetts.
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A community in Nova Scotia.
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A town in Victoria, Australia.
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Origin of dartmouth

  • So called as it is at the mouth of the River Dart.

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Dartmouth Sentence Examples

  • In 1762 he was elected M.P. for Dartmouth, and held the seat till he received a title of Great Britain.

  • The officer commanding the British frigate "Dartmouth" (42), Captain Fellowes, seeing a Turkish fireship close to windward of him, sent a boat with a demand that she should be removed.

  • The "Dartmouth" then opened "a defensive fire," and the action became general at once.

  • He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1809, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and was a judge of the superior court from 1816 to 1823.

  • Franklin's influence helped to oust Hillsborough, and Dartmouth, whose name Franklin suggested, was made 1 Many questions (about 20 of the first 25) were put by his friends to draw out what he wished to be known.

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