英语词汇“goat-land”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

goat-land n. an area or terrain in which goats live or which is suitable for goats, typically a rural area with a mountainous and rugged landscape.In early use often as a literal rendering of place names. [In quot. 1587 after classical Latin Capraria, the name of an island in the Atlantic, probably one of the Canary Islands.]

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1587 A. Golding tr. Solinus Excellent & Pleasant Worke lxix. sig. Gg.ii The fourth [of the Iles of the Hesperides] is called Capraria. [margin] Goateland.

a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hhhhh4/2 He is a mountaineere, a man of Goteland.

1748 J. Keogh Etymol. Treat. in Vindic. Antiq. Ireland 114 Dunegoury, goat-land.

1880 A. Milroy in Sc. Naturalist 5 281 Dr Joyce..shows, in his Irish names of places, that the word [sc. the place name Gowrie] is originally Gabhran, pronounced Gowran, meaning goat-land, the place where the goats fed.

1927 J. E. Harrison Themis (ed. 2) 206 Attica, stony Attica, is a goat-land.

1983 D. Bogarde Orderly Man i. 15 It was mostly what I call goat-land, that is to say, broom and thyme, coarse grass, jagged boulders with here and there boggy patches of brilliant green.

1993 I. Watson Lucky's Harvest xv. 195 The terrain around Outo was severe and rugged—goat-land.

单词	goat-land
释义	> as lemmas goat-land goat-land n. an area or terrain in which goats live or which is suitable for goats, typically a rural area with a mountainous and rugged landscape.In early use often as a literal rendering of place names. [In quot. 1587 after classical Latin Capraria, the name of an island in the Atlantic, probably one of the Canary Islands.] ΚΠ 1587 A. Golding tr. Solinus Excellent & Pleasant Worke lxix. sig. Gg.ii The fourth [of the Iles of the Hesperides] is called Capraria. [margin] Goateland. a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hhhhh4/2 He is a mountaineere, a man of Goteland. 1748 J. Keogh Etymol. Treat. in Vindic. Antiq. Ireland 114 Dunegoury, goat-land. 1880 A. Milroy in Sc. Naturalist 5 281 Dr Joyce..shows, in his Irish names of places, that the word [sc. the place name Gowrie] is originally Gabhran, pronounced Gowran, meaning goat-land, the place where the goats fed. 1927 J. E. Harrison Themis (ed. 2) 206 Attica, stony Attica, is a goat-land. 1983 D. Bogarde Orderly Man i. 15 It was mostly what I call goat-land, that is to say, broom and thyme, coarse grass, jagged boulders with here and there boggy patches of brilliant green. 1993 I. Watson Lucky's Harvest xv. 195 The terrain around Outo was severe and rugged—goat-land. extracted from goatn.adj. < as lemmas
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