BOSWELL

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

1. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)

2. a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds

  Familiarity information: BOSWELL used as a noun is rare.

• BOSWELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Boswell; James Boswell

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter (a person who backs a politician or a team etc.)

 Context examples 

Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity to miss it.

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

I like old Sam so well, I think I'll try the second volume, returned Jo, hoping to propitiate him by accepting a second dose of Boswell's Johnson, as he had recommended that lively work.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An early Earth without emergent continents may have resembled a 'water world,' providing an important environmental constraint on the origin and evolution of life on Earth as well as its possible existence elsewhere, geoscientists Benjamin Johnson and Boswell Wing write in a paper.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)