ANTHONY

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• ANTHONY (noun)
  The noun ANTHONY has 2 senses:

1. Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)

2. United States suffragist (1820-1906)

  Familiarity information: ANTHONY used as a noun is rare.

• ANTHONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anthony; Antonius; Antony; Marcus Antonius; Mark Anthony; Mark Antony

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States suffragist (1820-1906)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anthony; Susan Anthony; Susan B. Anthony; Susan Brownell Anthony

Instance hypernyms:

suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))

 Context examples 

“There should be a black man. A shipman with St. Anthony's fire, and a black man who had served him as cook—those are the pair that we are in chase of.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What! Not when Dorothy has given you to understand that there is a secret subterraneous communication between your apartment and the chapel of St. Anthony, scarcely two miles off?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Until now, we've only thought of thermokarst lakes as positive contributors to climate warming, said lead researcher Katey Walter Anthony, associate research professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

It has been a challenge for clinicians and parents to determine if a child is truly allergic to sesame, said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of National Institutes of Health.

(17% of Food-Allergic Children Have Sesame Allergy, National Institutes of Health)