Definition of tony
tonier
;toniest
: marked by an aristocratic or high-toned manner or style tony private schools
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Rounding out the likely five nominations are yet another Sherlock, and a tony PBS thing about British history.
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Rounding out the likely five nominations are yet another Sherlock, and a tony PBS thing about British history.
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Its 700 residents don't go out of their way to compete with the tony boutiques and clapboard condos of nearby Door County peninsula or Michigan's Mackinac Island.
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Under the trees, next to her herb garden and orchard, stir-up the ingredients, roll out the dough and cook the sweet bread in a tonier, a traditional oven usually buried in the ground.
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In Austin for a board meeting, Donofrio invited Su to dinner at the tony Barton Creek Resort.
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The sales price is a record for the tony enclave of Incline Village, Nev., said listing agent Patricia Lantz of Lakeshore Realty.
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The actress was in the tony New York food shop Clover Grocery, marveling at shelves filled with $13 jars of Himalayan salt.
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And so begins another Hamptons summer, with a sky full of noise and tumult, the great blue calm of Long Island’s toniest corners rent apart by metal beasts roaring overhead.
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First Known Use of tony
1877
Tony
playDefinition of Tony
Tonys
: a medallion awarded annually by a professional organization for notable achievement in the theater
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Today’s tony shopping village of Bal Harbour, Fla., in the late 1940s was a swampy patch of land at the northern end of the barrier island known as Miami Beach.
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One alderman on hand, Ameya Pawar, is not running for re-election in the tony, relatively progressive 47th Ward, instead throwing his hat in the ring for the Democratic governor nomination.
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Ji Baek, the supremely stylish owner of New York's tony Rescue Beauty Lounge, who regularly teeters around her salon in over-the-top Alaïa heels and Céline's new wood-block platforms, agrees with me.
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Origin and Etymology of tony
Tony, nickname of Antoinette Perry †1946 American actress & producer
TONY Defined for English Language Learners
tony
playDefinition of tony for English Language Learners
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: very expensive and fashionable
Tony
playDefinition of Tony for English Language Learners
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: an award given every year in New York City for the best plays, actors, directors, etc., in the theater
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