BROOKE

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• BROOKE (noun)
  The noun BROOKE has 1 sense:

1. English lyric poet (1887-1915)

  Familiarity information: BROOKE used as a noun is very rare.

• BROOKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English lyric poet (1887-1915)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Brooke; Rupert Brooke

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

"Try a little now. Here is Schiller's Mary Stuart and a tutor who loves to teach." And Mr. Brooke laid his book on her lap with an inviting smile.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It will be in Brookes’s and White’s to-morrow morning.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Developed in partnership with the Juazeiro do Norte College, the ABC Medical School, and Oxford Brookes University, in the UK, the research found the association beneficial in 37 patients.

(Music believed to boost hypertension treatment, Agenciabrasil/EBC)

Mr. Brooke made no comment as she returned the book to Meg, who said innocently, "I thought it was poetry."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was Major Hunter, of the Guards, with whom I had had a little tracasserie, because I hinted that he should not come into Brookes’s smelling of the stables.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Did the German song suit, Miss March?" inquired Mr. Brooke, breaking an awkward pause.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Every man to his own taste, but Brookes’s window by day and a snug corner of the macao table at Watier’s by night, give me all I want for mind and body.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Grandpa does sometimes, but my books don't interest him, and I hate to ask Brooke all the time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And thence we went to the Mall in St. James’s Park, and thence to Brookes’s, the great Whig club, and thence again to Watier’s, where the men of fashion used to gamble.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"So the poor knight is to be left sticking in the hedge, is he?" asked Mr. Brooke, still watching the river, and playing with the wild rose in his buttonhole.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)