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Noun: Murray  mur-ee or mú-ree [N. Amer], mú-ree [Brit]
  1. British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957)
    - Gilbert Murray, George Gilbert Aime Murphy
     
  2. Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
    - James Murray, James Augustus Murray, James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir James Murray, Sir James Augustus Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
     
  3. A southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide
    - Murray River

Type of: classical scholar, classicist, lexicographer, lexicologist, philologist, philologue, river

Part of: Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, Oz

Encyclopedia: Murray, Michael