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HUGHES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1862-1948)
Synonyms:
Charles Evans Hughes; Hughes
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)
Synonyms:
Howard Hughes; Howard Robard Hughes; Hughes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
aeronaut; airman; aviator; flier; flyer (someone who operates an aircraft)
film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States writer (1902-1967)
Synonyms:
Hughes; James Langston Hughes; Langston Hughes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 4
Meaning:
English poet (born in 1930)
Synonyms:
Edward James Hughes; Hughes; Ted Hughes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Context examples:
Yes; we agreed to take a turn in the Crescent, and there we met Mrs. Hughes, and Mr. and Miss Tilney walking with her.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
From such a moralizing strain as this, she was suddenly roused by a touch on the shoulder, and turning round, perceived Mrs. Hughes directly behind her, attended by Miss Tilney and a gentleman.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Hughes could not have applied to any creature in the room more happy to oblige her than Catherine.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Besides, I thought Mrs. Hughes, who introduced him, might take it ill if I did not: and your dear brother, I am sure he would have been miserable if I had sat down the whole evening.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Here they were interrupted by a request from Mrs. Thorpe to Mrs. Allen, that she would move a little to accommodate Mrs. Hughes and Miss Tilney with seats, as they had agreed to join their party.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The young ladies were introduced to each other, Miss Tilney expressing a proper sense of such goodness, Miss Morland with the real delicacy of a generous mind making light of the obligation; and Mrs. Hughes, satisfied with having so respectably settled her young charge, returned to her party.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Tilney was a Miss Drummond, and she and Mrs. Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and, when she married, her father gave her twenty thousand pounds, and five hundred to buy wedding-clothes.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Upon recollection, however, I have a notion they are both dead; at least the mother is; yes, I am sure Mrs. Tilney is dead, because Mrs. Hughes told me there was a very beautiful set of pearls that Mr. Drummond gave his daughter on her wedding-day and that Miss Tilney has got now, for they were put by for her when her mother died.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
At length however she was empowered to disengage herself from her friend, by the avowed necessity of speaking to Miss Tilney, whom she most joyfully saw just entering the room with Mrs. Hughes, and whom she instantly joined, with a firmer determination to be acquainted, than she might have had courage to command, had she not been urged by the disappointment of the day before.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
