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forbes
/fɔɹbz/
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What does forbes mean?
proper noun
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A unisex given name from Scottish Gaelic.
- A ghost town in California.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- A township and village in Holt County, Missouri, named after John Murray Forbes.
- A minor city in Dickey County, North Dakota, United States.
- A neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- A town and local government area (Forbes Shire) in central-west New South Wales, Australia.
- A locality in the Shire of Mitchell, central Victoria, Australia.
- A street in Buca, Turkey
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Very similar was the conduct of that inquiring Brahmin, which is related by Forbes in his Oriental Memoirs.
There are writers of more recent date, who have inflicted what Forbes would probably call more rhetorical rubbish upon chess readers.
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This doctrine has been emphatically admitted by many geologists and palæontologists, who, like E. Forbes, entirely disbelieve in the change of species.
Father Forbes had shaken hands, and moved off up another street some distance, before the voice of the girl recalled Theron to himself.
The Scotch Judge, Duncan Forbes, in his published letters of that period, wrote that the use of tea had become so excessive, that .