BACON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bacon mean? 

• BACON (noun)
  The noun BACON has 3 senses:

1. back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried

2. English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)

3. English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

  Familiarity information: BACON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

cut of pork (cut of meat from a hog or pig)

Meronyms (parts of "bacon"):

bacon rind (the rind of bacon)

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

flitch; side of bacon (salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork)

gammon (hind portion of a side of bacon)

bacon strip (a slice of bacon)

Canadian bacon (from a boned strip of cured loin)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bacon; Roger Bacon

Instance hypernyms:

monastic; monk (a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work)

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

1st Baron Verulam; Bacon; Baron Verulam; Francis Bacon; Sir Francis Bacon; Viscount St. Albans

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

 Context examples 

I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

For example, an ultra-processed breakfast might consist of a bagel with cream cheese and turkey bacon, while the unprocessed breakfast was oatmeal with bananas, walnuts, and skim milk.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)

The woman busied herself with cooking, while the man sliced bacon and fired the stove.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Jo regarded them as worthy of Bacon, Milton, or Shakespeare, and remodeled her own works with good effect, she thought.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Gave me a bit of bacon.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“I’m bringing home the bacon at last.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the instant a score of the famished brutes were scrambling for the bread and bacon.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It is but poor fare that I can lay before you—milk, cheese, wine, and bacon—yet your squire and yourself will doubtless excuse it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I sat down to my brown loaf, my egg, and my rasher of bacon, with a basin of milk besides, and made a most delicious meal.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And I thought you were some Essex chaw-bacon!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)