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PITT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)
Synonyms:
First Earl of Chatham; Pitt; Pitt the Elder; William Pitt
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806)
Synonyms:
Pitt; Pitt the Younger; Second Earl of Chatham; William Pitt
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:
A British playwright who created the fictional character Sweeney Todd (1799-1855)
Synonyms:
George Dibdin-Pitt; George Dibdin Pitt; George Pitt; Pitt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
Context examples:
Pitt was there, and surely he was not a man to leave his work half done.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The peasant's gossip had been of the hunt, of the bracken, of the gray-headed kites that had nested in Wood Fidley, and of the great catch of herring brought back by the boats of Pitt's Deep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When we have found who he is and who his associates are, we should have a good start in learning what he was doing in Pitt Street last night, and who it was who met him and killed him on the doorstep of Mr. Horace Harker.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, look ye, Charlie, if Pitt held me in contempt he could not behave different.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet, if for an instant he lay the cross aside, or if he fail to journey to Pitt's Deep, where it is ordered that he shall take ship to outland parts, or if he take not the first ship, or if until the ship be ready he walk not every day into the sea as far as his loins, then he becomes outlaw, and I shall forthwith dash out his brains.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Outside ourselves there are four, I think, who have had access to it—the Prince, of course; Mr Pitt; Monsieur Otto, the French Ambassador; and Lord Hawkesbury.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the one hand soldiers, sailors, and statesmen of the quality of Pitt, Nelson, and afterwards Wellington, had been forced to the front by the imminent menace of Buonaparte.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the same time, with all its faults it was a strong age, and you will be fortunate if in your time the country produces five such names as Pitt, Fox, Scott, Nelson, and Wellington.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We had gained some credit, which we were sorely in need of after the American business; and a few Colonies, which were welcome also for the same reason; but our debt had gone on rising and our consols sinking, until even Pitt stood aghast.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They can learn how Freedom fled from the whole broad continent, and how Nelson’s blood was shed, and Pitt’s noble heart was broken in striving that she should not pass us for ever to take refuge with our brothers across the Atlantic.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
