Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun murray

3 senses of murray

Sense 1
Murray, Gilbert Murray, George Gilbert Aime Murphy -- (British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957))
       INSTANCE OF=> classicist, classical scholar -- (a student of ancient Greek and Latin)

Sense 2
Murray, James Murray, James Augustus Murray, James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir James Murray, Sir James Augustus Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray -- (Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915))
       INSTANCE OF=> philologist, philologue -- (a humanist specializing in classical scholarship)
       INSTANCE OF=> lexicographer, lexicologist -- (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)

Sense 3
Murray, Murray River -- (a southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide)
       INSTANCE OF=> river -- (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles")