| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort.[Wordnet]. | |
| Noun Base (bermuda) | 1. A group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort.[Wordnet]. | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun bermuda.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "Bermudas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1626. (references) |
Specialty Definition: Bermudas
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Bermudas To live in the Bermudas, i.e. in some out-of-the-way place for cheapness. The shabby genteel hire a knocker in some West-end square, where letters may be left for them, but live in the Bermudas, or narrow passages north of the Strand, near Covent Garden. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Slang in 1811 | BERMUDAS. A cant name for certain places in London, privileged against arrests, like the Mint in Southwark, Ben. Jonson. These privileges are abolished. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
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Common Expressions: bermuda
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bermuda Agreement | In 1946, on the isle of Bermuda, U.S. and British negotiators reached the Bermuda Agreement, the first bilateral Air Transport Agreement regulating civil air transport. (references) | ||
| Bermuda at the 2000 Summer Olympics | Bermuda competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney under the IOC country code BER. (references) | ||
| Bermuda Bowl | World Team Championships in contract bridge is also known as Bermuda Bowl, because the first edition was held in Bermuda, in 1950. (references) | ||
| Bermuda buttercup | South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bermuda cedar | Ornamental densely pyramidal juniper of Bermuda; fairly large for a juniper. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bermuda chub | Food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bermuda Conference | The Bermuda Conference was held on April 19, 1943 at Hamilton, Bermuda. An international conference that brought together state officials from the United Kingdom and the U.S. to discuss the problem of the Holocaust, it was a sham. The result of the conference had been decided by the U.S. State Department beforehand. The U.S. would maintain its position that any effort to rescue Jews from genocide in Europe was unnecessary and that the pursuit of victory in the war was the best method of stopping the German Nazi government. (references) | ||
| Bermuda dollar | The basic unit of money in Bermuda. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bermuda dollar | The dollar (ISO 4217 code: BMD; symbol: $) has been the national currency of Bermuda since 1970. It is pegged to the US dollar at a 1:1 rate, but is not traded outside of Bermuda. Prior to 1970, Bermuda used the British pound/shilling/pence system. (references) | ||
| Bermuda Football Association | The Bermuda Football Association is the official football (soccer) organization in Bermuda and is in charge of the Bermudian national team. The league is also in charge of the sporting leagues on the island. In order of its main leagues. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bermuda
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bermuda high | Weather | A semi-permanent, subtropical area of high pressure in the North Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of North America that migrates east and west with varying central pressure. Depending on the season, it has different names. When it is displaced westward, during the Northern Hemispheric summer and fall, the center is located in the western North Atlantic, near Bermuda. In the winter and early spring, it is primarily centered near the Azores in the eastern part of the North Atlantic. Then it may be referred to as the Azores High. (references) | |
| Bermuda hist quart. | Library Science | Bermuda Historical Quarterly. Hamilton, Bermuda. (references) | |
| Bermuda rig | Transportation | Triangular fore-and-aft sails are set without a gaff, sprit or yard; the mast required is very much taller than that of a gaff-rigged boat and, like the tall aerial used for the Marconi transmitter in the early days of wireless, the original spars for this rig required a considerable number of stays and shrouds for support. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bermuda triangles | Health | Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). (references) | |
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