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  • Irons
    Irons
    noun
    Jeremy (John), born 1948, English actor.
  • irons
    irons
    plural noun
    fetters or chains (often in the phrase in or into irons )
Synonyms

Irons

American  
[ahy-ernz] / ˈaɪ ərnz /

noun

  1. Jeremy (John), born 1948, English actor.


irons 1 British  
/ ˈaɪənz /

plural noun

  1. fetters or chains (often in the phrase in or into irons )

  2. nautical (of a sailing vessel) headed directly into the wind without steerageway

  3. to be involved in many projects, activities, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Irons 2 British  
/ ˈaɪənz /

noun

  1. Jeremy. born 1948, British film and stage actor. His films include The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Mission (1986), Reversal of Fortune (1990), and Lolita (1997)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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Guardiola ended Saturday's post-match news conference by saying "come on you Irons", before gesturing the Hammers symbol with his arms crossed above his head.

From BBC May 9, 2026

Directed by Bille August, this ‘Masterpiece’ adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic stars Sam Claflin as the wronged seaman and Jeremy Irons as his friend and fellow prisoner.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

Mr. Irons is a credit to his family, playing Mycroft with the right balance of bemusement with his brother and the stuffiness that befits a member of the Foreign Office.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

Irons was described as a "beautiful, loving and caring daughter, sister, niece, cousin and friend" by her family.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2026

Having ruled out a heart attack, the cardiologist, James Herrick, assigned the case rather casually to a medical resident named Ernest Irons.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Rose will play with McLaren irons and is likely to use the more forgiving game-improver versions at the long end of the bag and blades for the rest.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

The five-time major winner from Northern Ireland switched to cavity-back irons for last December's Australian Open and two events this year in Dubai but is back to familiar equipment this week.

From Barron's Feb. 11, 2026

The ruling irons out recent judicial efforts to protect California convicts from what Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu called “cascading consequences” of administrative debt.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2025

He stood in the irons and began pulling the horse up.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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