What is another word for Ramsay?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈamse͡ɪ] (IPA)

Ramsay is a proper noun that usually denotes a surname or a given name. However, there are several synonyms one can use to refer to Ramsay, depending on the specific context. For instance, some of the possible synonyms for Ramsay surname include Ramsay of Dalhousie, Ramesses, Ramsey, Ramesh, and Ramjeet, while some of the synonyms for Ramsay given name include Ram, Ramy, Rama, Ramone, and Ramiro. In some cases, one may also use the term "Scottish Clan Ramsay" in place of the surname Ramsay. These synonyms can help to diversify one's writing and add more dimension to their vocabulary.

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What are the hypernyms for Ramsay?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Ramsay

1. To paliate his conduct, Tarleton has written a most partial account of it, which has been followed by Moultrie, and substantially by Ramsay.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
It was not intended by the author to narrate the particulars of the siege of Charleston; these have been detailed by the enlightened historian of South Carolina, Dr. Ramsay.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
Here also were two flocks belonging to Dr. Ramsay; Balderudgery, the head station, being fifteen miles distant, by a mountain road through a gap.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell

Famous quotes with Ramsay

  • Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.
    Nigella Lawson
  • Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscription on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs Ramsay's knee.
    Virginia Woolf
  • What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. This, that, and the otherLife stand still here, Mrs. Ramsay said.She owed it all to her.
    Virginia Woolf
  • Mrs Ramsay sat silent. She was glad, Lily thought, to rest in silence, uncommunicative; to rest in the extreme obscurity of human relationships. Who knows what we are, what we feel? Who knows even at the moment of intimacy, This is knowledge? Aren't things spoilt then, Mrs Ramsay may have asked (it seemed to have happened so often, this silence by her side) by saying them?
    Virginia Woolf
  • But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing. 'About life, about death; about Mrs Ramsay' – no, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody.
    Virginia Woolf

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