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ARMSTRONG

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)

Synonyms:

Armstrong; Louis Armstrong; Satchmo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

jazz musician; jazzman (a musician who plays or composes jazz music)

cornetist; trumpeter (a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)

Synonyms:

Armstrong; Neil Armstrong

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft)

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 Context examples: 

“Excuse me, Dr. Armstrong, I think we are a little at cross-purposes,” said my friend, with dignity.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Armstrong is not really a doctor in practice.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A man of deep character, a man with an alert mind, grim, ascetic, self-contained, formidable—so I read Dr. Leslie Armstrong.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It argues the degree in which I had lost touch with my profession that the name of Leslie Armstrong was unknown to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then perhaps you will explain this receipted bill for thirteen guineas, paid by Mr. Godfrey Staunton last month to Dr. Leslie Armstrong, of Cambridge.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dr. Leslie Armstrong sprang up from behind his desk, and his dark face was crimson with fury.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This little inn just opposite Armstrong’s house is singularly adapted to our needs.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Dr. Leslie Armstrong is certainly a man of energy and character,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dr. Armstrong took a quick step forward and wrung Holmes by the hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A draghound will follow aniseed from here to John o’Groat’s, and our friend, Armstrong, would have to drive through the Cam before he would shake Pompey off his trail.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)