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Chapter XXXIV

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_Clown_.
’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?
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Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Middlemarch

Chapter XXXIV

Reading 1/63 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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_Clown_.
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’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

Learner Dictionary

Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.

Have auxiliary verb US /hæv/

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading “’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?”

All words in this reading · 16

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adeterminerUS /ə/

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

Bunch

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From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

Clown

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From this reading _Clown_.

delight

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From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

Grapes

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From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

inprepositionUS /ɪn/

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

indeed

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From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

notadverbUS /nɑːt/

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

sit

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From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

thedeterminerUS /ðə/

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

toparticleUS /tuː/

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

Twas

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From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

whereconjunctionUS /wer/

in or at the place that

From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?

youpronounUS /juː/

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading ’Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not?