| 单词 | rallying point |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrallying point a. General attributive, as rallying place, rallying point, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > place of meeting or assembly meeting-place1553 place (point, port, etc.) of rendezvous1556 meeting1598 emporium1683 rallying place1759 rallying point1759 meeting-ground1840 parish pump1840 point1967 1759 W. Harte Hist. Life Gustavus Adolphus I. 397 Behind him lay a large wood, which he proposed for a rallying place in case of a defeat. 1774 tr. F. J. de Chastellux Ess. Public Happiness I. ii. iv. 344 The extinction of Paganism, was, as it were, the rallying point, to which every sect equally tended. 1792 Times 22 Dec. 3/4 The members of the family of the Bourbons..serve as a rallying point to the enemies of the Republic. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. v. 344 The paternal hearth, that rallying place of the affections. 1872 Harper's Mag. Apr. 690/2 A one-story wooden structure..became the rallying-place of the tribes. 1942 Classical Q. 36 78 He may have gone at once to Cyprus, which was, besides Thebes, the other principal rallying-place for the exiles. 1989 Scotl. on Sunday 28 May 38 The old rallying ground of Clan Alpin at Loch Arklet is now under water. 1997 G. Rising Clean for Gene iii. 35 Opposition to the Vietnam War served as the rallying point for many of those disaffected by American society. 2001 B. Walter Outsiders Inside ii. 46 Cambridge Common..was first preserved as an open space to commemorate its use as a rallying place for troops. < as lemmas |
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