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JOHNSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)
Synonyms:
Andrew Johnson; Johnson; President Andrew Johnson; President Johnson
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)
Sense 2
Meaning:
36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)
Synonyms:
Johnson; LBJ; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Lyndon Johnson; President Johnson; President Lyndon Johnson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)
Sense 3
Meaning:
English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)
Synonyms:
Dr. Johnson; Johnson; Samuel Johnson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
lexicographer; lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples:
Without Doctor Johnson, or somebody of that sort, we might have been at this present moment calling an Italian-iron, a bedstead.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Certain allelic variants of the HLA-B gene are associated with susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis, carbamazepine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome and allopurinol-induced severe cutaneous adverse reaction.
(HLA-B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
It is associated with susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis, Behcet syndrome and carbamazepine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
(HLA Class I Histocompatibility Antigen, B-7 Alpha Chain, NCI Thesaurus)
Research at the Center is integrated with the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, School of Public Health, and several schools and departments of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Princeton University.
(Cancer Institute of New Jersey, NCI Thesaurus)
I was in the apple barrel the night we sighted land, and I heard you, John, and you, Dick Johnson, and Hands, who is now at the bottom of the sea, and told every word you said before the hour was out.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps, when, like poor Johnson, I'm old and can't enjoy it, solitary, and can't share it, independent, and don't need it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Plague take it, Ned! cried the squire, I would that my clerk Johnson were here, for I would deal as kindly by you as the law allows; and yet I am, as you hear, called upon to secure your person.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The word 'nicest,' as you used it, did not suit him; and you had better change it as soon as you can, or we shall be overpowered with Johnson and Blair all the rest of the way.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"An' I ain't here a-lookin' for it neither. I'm tryin' to find my sister. Mebbe you know where she lives. Her name's Johnson, Mrs. William Johnson."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He it was, I know, that carried some of Johnson’s hasty talk to Wolf Larsen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
