balmoral

«balmoral» in Mova's school dictionary: a large castle in the Highlands of Scotland, a private… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

proper noun (Balmoral; Balmoral Castle)

meaning for a pupil

1) Balmoral Castle is a large castle in the Highlands of Scotland, a private holiday home of the British royal family. tree →

2) (clothing) A balmoral is a flat Scottish cap, or a kind of laced boot. tree →

sense in the lessons

Met in news about the royal family, who often spend late summer there, and in geography or history about Scotland. It tells the reader the story is about the royals or Scotland. Phrases: «at Balmoral», «Balmoral Castle», «the Balmoral estate».

examples

• The royal family spends the summer holidays at Balmoral. tree →
• Balmoral Castle is in the Scottish Highlands. tree →
• The queen loved walking her dogs at Balmoral. tree →
• Balmoral is surrounded by hills, forests and rivers. tree →
• Visitors can see the gardens at Balmoral in some months. tree →
• The piper wore a balmoral cap. tree →

note

A proper noun: write it with a capital B (Balmoral). Pronounced bal-MOR-al. It is a private home of the royal family, not a palace owned by the state like Buckingham Palace.

In the corpora

• Queen Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022 at Balmoral in Scotland, aged 96, after seventy years as Queen.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «balmoral» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.