BROOKS

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

1. United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)

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

• BROOKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Brooks; Van Wyck Brooks

Instance hypernyms:

literary critic (a critic of literature)

 Context examples 

“Don't tell me. You are Brooks,” said the gentleman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Suppose that I were Brooks or Woodhouse, or any of the fifty men who have good reason for taking my life, how long could I survive against my own pursuit?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was field upon field of ripening grain, with well-paved roads running between, and pretty rippling brooks with strong bridges across them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Occasional brooks with pebbly bottoms and fern-draped banks gurgled down the shallow gorges in the hill, and offered good camping-grounds every evening on the banks of some rock-studded pool, where swarms of little blue-backed fish, about the size and shape of English trout, gave us a delicious supper.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Add to this, the pleasure of seeing the various revolutions of states and empires; the changes in the lower and upper world; ancient cities in ruins, and obscure villages become the seats of kings; famous rivers lessening into shallow brooks; the ocean leaving one coast dry, and overwhelming another; the discovery of many countries yet unknown; barbarity overrunning the politest nations, and the most barbarous become civilized.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was confused, and was going by them, when the gentleman cried: What! Brooks! “No, sir, David Copperfield,” I said.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You are Brooks of Sheffield. That's your name.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“And how do you get on, and where are you being educated, Brooks?” said Mr. Quinion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Silence ensued, and I was considering how I could best disengage my shoulder from his hand, and go away, when he said: I suppose you are a pretty sharp fellow still? Eh, Brooks?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This he did; and when the wine came, he made me have a little, with a biscuit, and, before I drank it, stand up and say, “Confusion to Brooks of Sheffield!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)