Antrim

[ an-trim ]

noun

1. a county in NE Northern Ireland. 1,098 sq. mi. (2,844 sq. km). : Belfast.
2. an administrative district in this county. 217 sq. mi. (563 sq. km).

Antrim

/ ˈæntrɪm /

noun

1. a historical county of NE Northern Ireland, famous for the Giant's Causeway on the N coast: in 1973 it was replaced for administrative purposes by the districts of Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Carrickfergus, Larne, Moyle, Newtownabbey, and parts of Belfast and Lisburn. Area: 3100 sq km (1200 sq miles)
2. a district of Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 49 260 (2003 est). Area: 415 sq km (160 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Antrim sketches his characters—Rotarians, tennis buffs, suburban moms, way- ward teens—with indelible lines.

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The amount of information Antrim manages to pack into this sentence is amazing.

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His raving, about James Purdy, the Swedish thriller The Laughing Policeman, or Donald Antrim, are impossibly infectious.

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Critic Taylor Antrim goes in search of great 2011 fiction unjustly ignored by The New York Times.

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Taylor Antrim is fiction critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual .

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But we very much doubt if the above has really any connection with the Antrim witch-case of 1698.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the young widow moved to the Territory of Colorado, where she married a Mr. Antrim.

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The young blacksmith who had insulted Mrs. Antrim and who had been knocked down by Ed.

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Here Mr. and Mrs. Antrim established a new restaurant, and had Ash Upson as the star boarder.

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Crying never patched a hole in a brogue, and a man who's been fooled is no admirable figure, at least to Antrim men.

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