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OWEN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)

Synonyms:

Owen; Sir Richard Owen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

comparative anatomist (anatomist who compares the anatomy of different animals)

fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist (a specialist in paleontology)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

Synonyms:

Owen; Robert Owen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)

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 Context examples: 

Ive been to Tom Owen’s, and I’ve been to the ’Ole in the Wall, and I’ve been to the Waggon and ’Orses, and you can get seven to one in any of them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tom Owen and his singular assistant, Fogo, who combined the functions of prize-fighter and of poet, though, fortunately for himself, he could use his fists better than his pen, soon had the ring arranged according to the rules then in vogue.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)