az

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian
noun a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon

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Sir ---- de Arderne, bearing arms Arg. a lion ramp. az. debruized by a baston gu., appears in Planche's Roll of Arms of Henry III. — Shakespeare's family, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
It is, however, most probable, that they were persons of respectability and fortune, as he was sent, at an early age, to Oxford, and entered as a commoner of Christ-church college[AY], where his conduct was so exemplary, his attention to his studies so marked, and his general deportment and manners so pleasing, that he became a successful candidate at Merton-college, and was admitted a probationary fellow on that foundation in 1620, being then, according to Wood[AZ], about nineteen years of age. — Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters, John Earle

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