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Munro

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/mʌnˈrəʊ/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(mən rō′)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
Mun•ro  (mən rō′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Biographical H(ector) H(ugh) ("Saki''), 1870–1916, Scottish novelist and short-story writer, born in Burma.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Munro /mʌnˈrəʊ/ n ( pl Munros)
  1. any separate mountain peak over 3000 feet high: originally used of Scotland only but now sometimes extended to other parts of the British Isles
Etymology: 20th Century: named after Hugh Thomas Munro (1856–1919), who published a list of these in 1891
Munro /mʌnˈrəʊ/ n
  1. Alice, original name Alice Laidlaw. 1931–2024, 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 Man Booker International Prize (2009) for a lifetime body of work; awarded the Nobel prize for literature (2013)
  2. 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)
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