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ROBINSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973)
Synonyms:
Edward G. Robinson; Edward Goldenberg Robinson; Robinson
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)
Synonyms:
Edwin Arlington Robinson; Robinson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)
Synonyms:
Jack Roosevelt Robinson; Jackie Robinson; Robinson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)
Synonyms:
James Harvey Robinson; Robinson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958)
Synonyms:
Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson; Lennox Robinson; Robinson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
Sense 6
Meaning:
United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989)
Synonyms:
Ray Robinson; Robinson; Sugar Ray Robinson; Walker Smith
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
gladiator; prizefighter (a professional boxer)
Sense 7
Meaning:
English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)
Synonyms:
Robert Robinson; Robinson; Sir Robert Robinson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)
Context examples:
Perhaps you mean what I overheard between him and Mr. Robinson; did not I mention it to you? Mr. Robinson's asking him how he liked our Meryton assemblies, and whether he did not think there were a great many pretty women in the room, and which he thought the prettiest? and his answering immediately to the last question: 'Oh! the eldest Miss Bennet, beyond a doubt; there cannot be two opinions on that point.'
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It must be a work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the spine; but Mr Robinson found nothing to increase alarm, and Charles Musgrove began, consequently, to feel no necessity for longer confinement.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
More solitary than Robinson Crusoe, who had nobody to look at him and see that he was solitary, I went into the booking-office, and, by invitation of the clerk on duty, passed behind the counter, and sat down on the scale at which they weighed the luggage.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Robinson and his colleagues exploited a similarity between exoplanet transits and sunsets witnessed by the Cassini spacecraft at Titan.
(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)
Till he came and had examined the child, their apprehensions were the worse for being vague; they suspected great injury, but knew not where; but now the collar-bone was soon replaced, and though Mr Robinson felt and felt, and rubbed, and looked grave, and spoke low words both to the father and the aunt, still they were all to hope the best, and to be able to part and eat their dinner in tolerable ease of mind; and then it was, just before they parted, that the two young aunts were able so far to digress from their nephew's state, as to give the information of Captain Wentworth's visit; staying five minutes behind their father and mother, to endeavour to express how perfectly delighted they were with him, how much handsomer, how infinitely more agreeable they thought him than any individual among their male acquaintance, who had been at all a favourite before.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself, and to feel, when I shut my outer door, like Robinson Crusoe, when he had got into his fortification, and pulled his ladder up after him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We had an adjourned cause in the Consistory that day—about excommunicating a baker who had been objecting in a vestry to a paving-rate—and as the evidence was just twice the length of Robinson Crusoe, according to a calculation I made, it was rather late in the day before we finished.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
