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SHAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)
Synonyms:
G. B. Shaw; George Bernard Shaw; Shaw
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Derivation:
Shavian (of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919)
Synonyms:
Anna Howard Shaw; Shaw
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)
suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)
Synonyms:
Henry Wheeler Shaw; Josh Billings; Shaw
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
humorist; humourist (someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)
Synonyms:
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; Artie Shaw; Shaw
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
bandleader (the leader of a dance band)
clarinetist; clarinettist (a musician who plays the clarinet)
Context examples:
We turn to the country on the north. Here there lies a grove of trees, marked as the ‘Ragged Shaw,’ and on the farther side stretches a great rolling moor, Lower Gill Moor, extending for ten miles and sloping gradually upward.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Come, she went on, springing to her feet, and smoothing down her rumpled frock, let us walk through the shaw together, and we may come upon Bertrand with the horses.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
