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Munro
[muhn-roh]
noun
Alice (Laidlaw) born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
H(ector) H(ugh) Saki, 1870–1916, Scottish novelist and short-story writer, born in Myanmar (Burma).
Munro
1/ ʌˈəʊ /
noun
Alice, original name Alice Laidlaw. born 1931, Canadian short-story writer; her books include Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), and The Love of a Good Woman (1999); winner of the Booker international prize (2009) for a lifetime body of work
H ( ector ) H ( ugh ), pen name Saki. 1870–1916, Scottish author, born in Burma (now Myanmar), noted for his collections of satirical short stories, such as Reginald (1904) and Beasts and Superbeasts (1914)
Munro
2/ ʌˈəʊ /
noun
mountaineering any separate mountain peak over 3000 feet high: originally used of Scotland only but now sometimes extended to other parts of the British Isles
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Munro1
Example Sentences
But maybe you have cherished your Alice Munro novels, and the accusations of abuse from her daughter give you new unease when you look at your bookshelf.
Dr Munro graduated from Edinburgh university's medical school, before becoming a cruise ship doctor then director of Japan's Yokohama Juzen Hospital.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman, named as 45-year-old Pamela Munro, was stabbed to death in north London on Saturday.
After leaving the Army, he tried to sell Munro as a strip but had no luck because it was not intended for children, even though the main character was a child.
He later appeared as Sonny Munro in River City, and Tostig in the History Channel series Vikings, but relocated to Edinburgh in the mid-1980s, where he established a successful pizza restaurant.
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