ARTHUR

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

1. elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)

2. a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot

  Familiarity information: ARTHUR used as a noun is rare.

• ARTHUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arthur; Chester A. Arthur; Chester Alan Arthur; President Arthur

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 2

Meaning:

A legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arthur; King Arthur

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

Derivation:

Arthurian (of or relating to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table)

 Context examples 

He intended to make a bargain with me—to restore Arthur if I would break the entail, and so make it possible for the estate to be left to him by will.

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

"I have been looking forward to meeting you ever since Arthur told us. It was brave of you—"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

‘You seem to have made a vast impression upon my brother Arthur,’ said he; ‘and I know that he is a pretty shrewd judge.’

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

Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences to me.

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

Such a host of friends!—and Mr. George and Mr. Arthur!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The man’s name was Arthur Cadogan West.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Sir Stephen is my elder brother, and I am Arthur, the second son,” said the youth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Arthur came to lunch he looked quite grieved when he saw me, and I hadn't the spirit to try to be cheerful.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There are old fops still lurking in the corners of Arthur’s or of White’s who can remember Tregellis’s dictum, that a cravat should be so stiffened that three parts of the length could be raised by one corner, and the painful schism which followed when Lord Alvanley and his school contended that a half was sufficient.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)