AARON

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

1. United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934)

2. (Old Testament) elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites; created the golden calf

  Familiarity information: AARON used as a noun is rare.

• AARON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Aaron; Hank Aaron; Henry Louis Aaron

Instance hypernyms:

ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Old Testament) elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites; created the golden calf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

priest (a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

“And I will have Aaron's rod,” quoth Aylward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scott Poethig, a plant biologist at Penn, and Aaron Leichty of the University of California, Davis, show that as part of an age-dependent phenomenon in plant development, the acacias develop the traits necessary to feed the ant colony: hollow, swollen thorns to house them; and nectaries and nutrient-rich leaflet tips called Beltian bodies to feed them.

(Between ants and acacias, timing is everything, National Science Foundation)

Here, too, is part of Aaron's rod, and a lock of hair from Elisha the prophet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)