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BALDWIN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Baldwin" is a kind of...):

dessert apple; eating apple (an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947)

Synonyms:

1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; Baldwin; Stanley Baldwin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987)

Synonyms:

Baldwin; James Arthur Baldwin; James Baldwin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Credits

 Context examples: 

That little cove with the leery face is Caleb Baldwin the Coster, ’im that they call the Pride of Westminster. ’E’s but five foot seven, and nine stone five, but ’e’s got the ’eart of a giant. ’E’s never been beat, and there ain’t a man within a stone of ’im that could beat ’im, except only Dutch Sam. There’s George Maddox, too, another o’ the same breed, and as good a man as ever pulled his coat off.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw that both Belcher and Baldwin were looking grave, and I knew that we must have a change of some sort, or the old tale of youth and age would be told once more.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How are you, Baldwin?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Who, as he saw Sheridan and Fox eagerly arguing as to whether Caleb Baldwin, the Westminster costermonger, could hold his own with Isaac Bittoon, the Jew, would have guessed that the one was the deepest political philosopher in Europe, and that the other would be remembered as the author of the wittiest comedy and of the finest speech of his generation?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)