Ashdown

/ (ˈæʃdaʊn) /


noun
  1. Paddy, Baron. real name Jeremy John Durham Ashdown . born 1941, British politician; leader of the Liberal Democrats (formerly the Social and Liberal Democrats) (1988–99); UN high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 2002

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How to use Ashdown in a sentence

  • The son replied that he knew who his mother had said he would sometime marry, and named Sister Ashdown.

  • He defeated the Danes, who had overrun most of England, at Ashdown, and compelled them to make a treaty of peace.

    Tom Brown at Rugby | Thomas Hughes
  • The place where the armies met was called in those times scesdune, which means Ashdown.

    King Alfred of England | Jacob Abbott