BURTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Burton mean? 

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

1. English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)

2. Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984)

3. a strong dark English ale

  Familiarity information: BURTON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Burton; Richard Burton; Sir Richard Burton; Sir Richard Francis Burton

Instance hypernyms:

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Burton; Richard Burton

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A strong dark English ale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

ale (a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume)

 Context examples 

Burton's Magazine paid his price for five essays, and the remaining four, at the same rate, were snapped up by Mackintosh's Monthly, The Northern Review being too poor to stand the pace.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Think of Richard Burton. When I read his wife's life of him I could so understand her love.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Burton struck out, without warning, straight from the shoulder.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.

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

"We can't all be Stanleys and Burtons," said I; "besides, we don't get the chance,—at least, I never had the chance. If I did, I should try to take it."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Black” Burton, a man evil-tempered and malicious, had been picking a quarrel with a tenderfoot at the bar, when Thornton stepped good-naturedly between.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Northern Review, after publishing The Cradle of Beauty, had written him for half a dozen similar essays, which would have been supplied out of the heap, had not Burton's Magazine, in a speculative mood, offered him five hundred dollars each for five essays.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Those who were looking on heard what was neither bark nor yelp, but a something which is best described as a roar, and they saw Buck’s body rise up in the air as he left the floor for Burton’s throat.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)