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TOM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Male turkey

Synonyms:

gobbler; tom; tom turkey; turkey cock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tom" is a kind of...):

Meleagris gallopavo; turkey (large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Male cat

Synonyms:

tom; tomcat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tom" is a kind of...):

domestic cat; Felis catus; Felis domesticus; house cat (any domesticated member of the genus Felis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tom"):

gib (a castrated tomcat)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Tom himself began to fret over the scene-painter's slow progress, and to feel the miseries of waiting.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom was enjoying such an advance towards the end; Edmund was in spirits from the morning's rehearsal, and little vexations seemed everywhere smoothed away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom was engrossed by the concerns of his theatre, and saw nothing that did not immediately relate to it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom walked out of the room as he said it, and Edmund was left to sit down and stir the fire in thoughtful vexation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom arrived safely, bringing an excellent account of his father's health; but to very little purpose, as far as Mrs. Norris was concerned.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom dangerously ill, Edmund gone to attend him, and the sadly small party remaining at Mansfield, were cares to shut out every other care, or almost every other.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom, however, had no mind for such treatment: he came home not to stand and be talked to, but to run about and make a noise; and both boys had soon burst from her, and slammed the parlour-door till her temples ached.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom Oliver is a very clever fellow, and Charles Maddox is as gentlemanlike a man as you will see anywhere, so I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom, returning from them into the drawing-room, where Edmund was standing thoughtfully by the fire, while Lady Bertram was on the sofa at a little distance, and Fanny close beside her arranging her work, thus began as he entered—“Such a horribly vile billiard-table as ours is not to be met with, I believe, above ground.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom's extreme impatience to be removed to Mansfield, and experience those comforts of home and family which had been little thought of in uninterrupted health, had probably induced his being conveyed thither too early, as a return of fever came on, and for a week he was in a more alarming state than ever.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)