ADAMS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Adams mean? 

• ADAMS (noun)
  The noun ADAMS has 4 senses:

1. American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)

2. 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)

3. 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)

4. a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high)

  Familiarity information: ADAMS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADAMS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Adams; Sam Adams; Samuel Adams

Instance hypernyms:

American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Adams; John Quincy Adams; President Adams; President John Quincy Adams

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 3

Meaning:

2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Adams; John Adams; President Adams; President John Adams

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Adams; Mount Adams

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Holonyms ("Adams" is a part of...):

Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)

Cascade Mountains; Cascade Range; Cascades (a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range)

 Context examples 

Adams has left the school so long, that when he comes back, on a visit to Doctor Strong, there are not many there, besides myself, who know him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nocturnal myoclonus may represent a normal physiologic event or occur as the principal feature of the NOCTURNAL MYOCLONUS SYNDROME. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp102-3).

(Myoclonic jerk, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

When both forms are present the condition is referred to as mixed sleep apnea (see SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES). (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p395; Neurol Clin 1996;14(3):611-28)

(Central Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Inflammation of the brain, spinal cord, and meninges may occur and lead to transient or permanent neurologic deficits (including a POLIOMYELITIS-like presentation); SEIZURES; COMA; and death. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p751; Lancet 1998 Apr 11;351(9109):1094-7)

(Japanese B Encephalitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It was Adams, of course.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Time has stolen on unobserved, for Adams is not the head-boy in the days that are come now, nor has he been this many and many a day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yes, it was Adams.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Adams is going to be called to the bar almost directly, and is to be an advocate, and to wear a wig.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One Adams, who was the head-boy, then stepped out of his place and welcomed me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Adams, our head-boy, who had a turn for mathematics, had made a calculation, I was informed, of the time this Dictionary would take in completing, on the Doctor's plan, and at the Doctor's rate of going.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)