Mandeville

[man-duh-vil]

noun

1. Bernard de c1670–1733, English physician and satirist, born in Holland.

2. Sir John, died 1372, English compiler of a book of travels.

Mandeville

/ ˈmændəvɪl /

noun

1. Bernard de. ?1670–1733, English author, born in Holland, noted for his satire The Fable of the Bees (1723)

2. Sir John. 14th century, English author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The book claims to be an account of the author's journeys in the East but is largely a compilation from other works

Example Sentences

Michaels hiked with Kennedy in Los Angeles’ Mandeville Canyon last year but was too busy talking to him about how to combat the nation’s obesity problem to ask why he was wearing jeans, she said.

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Craig Mandeville, an entrepreneur and longtime Jacksonville resident, has joined The June.

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Masum was arrested in the early hours of 9 April in a car park near Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, where he had gone to be treated for "lockjaw".

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His son Richard said he had fallen and broke his hip on 5 July, and was successfully operated on at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

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He was arrested in the early hours of 9 April in a car park near Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he had gone to be treated for "lockjaw".

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