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Hobart

[ hoh-bert -bahrt; hoh-bahrt ]

noun

  1. Gar·ret Augustus [gar, -it], 1844–99, U.S. lawyer and politician: vice president of the U.S. 1897–99.
  2. a seaport on and the capital of Tasmania, SE of Australia.
  3. a city in NW Indiana.
  4. a male given name.


Hobart

/ ˈhəʊbɑːt /

noun

  1. a port in Australia, capital of the island state of Tasmania on the estuary of the Derwent: excellent natural harbour; University of Tasmania (1890). Pop: 126 048 (2001)


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Example Sentences

Prematurely retired in early 1940, Hobart was brought back at the personal insistence of Churchill.

Hobart apparently threw his British heart and soul into his task.

John Young, director of admissions at Hobart, goes one step further.

We want to know what you know about Hobart and why it would be a good fit for you.

His work has appeared in such venues as Chizine, Space and Time, elimae, Wigleaf, Hobart, The Los Angeles Review, and PANK.

And Hobart had taken his place by the upper entrance, his hand held stiffly across his body.

But Hobart did not buckle the strap about his arm once more, neither did he pay any attention to Lablet.

So Hobart shook his head, and they meekly continued on the path set by the globe across the ocean.

Finally the rest decided that Lablet and Hobart were to try to establish contact with the aliens once more.

They consented to visit Hobart Town, to which they were transferred by water.

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