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CHURCHILL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Churchill" is a part of...):
Manitoba (one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada)
Sense 2
Meaning:
British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)
Synonyms:
Churchill; Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill; Winston Churchill; Winston S. Churchill
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Derivation:
Churchillian (of or relating to or suggestive of Winston Churchill)
Sense 3
Meaning:
English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722)
Synonyms:
Churchill; Duke of Marlborough; First Duke of Marlborough; John Churchill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Context examples:
Emma spoke with a very proper degree of pleasure; and fully assented to his proposition of Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Smith making their party quite complete.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Churchill rules at Enscombe, and is a very odd-tempered woman; and his coming now, depends upon her being willing to spare him.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill has written to Mrs. Weston?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Now, it so happened that in spite of Emma's resolution of never marrying, there was something in the name, in the idea of Mr. Frank Churchill, which always interested her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I hope, with all my heart, the young man may be a Weston in merit, and a Churchill in fortune.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Now was the time for Mr. Frank Churchill to come among them; and the hope strengthened when it was understood that he had written to his new mother on the occasion.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A man who felt rightly would say at once, simply and resolutely, to Mrs. Churchill—'Every sacrifice of mere pleasure you will always find me ready to make to your convenience; but I must go and see my father immediately.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of reconciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They lived beyond their income, but still it was nothing in comparison of Enscombe: she did not cease to love her husband, but she wanted at once to be the wife of Captain Weston, and Miss Churchill of Enscombe.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I can imagine, that if you, as you are, Mr. Knightley, were to be transported and placed all at once in Mr. Frank Churchill's situation, you would be able to say and do just what you have been recommending for him; and it might have a very good effect.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
