name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Eyre
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
General-American: âr
-
General-American: /ɛəɹ/
-
General-American: /ɛɹ/
-
rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
-
homophone: air
-
homophone: Ayr
-
homophone: ere
-
homophone: heir
-
homophone: are (unit of measurement)
-
homophone: err (one pronunciation)
-
homophone: e'er.
-
CMU ARPABET: EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Lake Eyre
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lake
History
Etymology
From Middle English eire, from Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.