CALDWELL

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

1. United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987)

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

• CALDWELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Caldwell; Erskine Caldwell; Erskine Preston Caldwell

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

Professor Caldwell sat for a full minute, silent and fingering his watch chain.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You shouldn't have monopolized Professor Caldwell that way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At Ruth's home he never met a large mind, with the exception of Professor Caldwell, and Caldwell he had met there only once.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But he noted that Brissenden had what Professor Caldwell lacked—namely, fire, the flashing insight and perception, the flaming uncontrol of genius.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had sat two lecture courses under Professor Caldwell and looked up to him as the living repository of all knowledge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But such thoughts and visions did not prevent him from following Professor Caldwell closely.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So Martin contaminated Professor Caldwell with his own earnestness, challenging him to speak his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Furthermore, Professor Caldwell did not realize Martin's concept of the average English professor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So it was, as he listened to Professor Caldwell's easy flow of speech—the conversation of a clever, cultured man—that Martin kept seeing himself down all his past.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was superior to the climb, and (he did not, with false modesty, hide it from himself) he was superior to the beings among whom he had climbed—with the exception, of course, of Professor Caldwell.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)