BYRON

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

1. English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)

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

• BYRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Byron; Lord George Gordon Byron; Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

We were great in arms, and were soon also to be great in literature, for Scott and Byron were in their day the strongest forces in Europe.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A man does not like to prove such a truth; Byron excepted from the category, jealousy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He would gain cheerfulness, and she would learn to be an enthusiast for Scott and Lord Byron; nay, that was probably learnt already; of course they had fallen in love over poetry.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They condescended occasionally to poetry or oratory; and Byron, Charles James Fox, Sheridan, and Castlereagh, preserved some reputation amongst them, in spite of their publicity.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lord Byron's "dark blue seas" could not fail of being brought forward by their present view, and she gladly gave him all her attention as long as attention was possible.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Their conversation the preceding evening did not disincline him to seek her again; and they walked together some time, talking as before of Mr Scott and Lord Byron, and still as unable as before, and as unable as any other two readers, to think exactly alike of the merits of either, till something occasioned an almost general change amongst their party, and instead of Captain Benwick, she had Captain Harville by her side.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)