CHESTERTON

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

1. conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)

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

• CHESTERTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton; Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

Chesterton, Histon, Waterbeach, and Oakington have each been explored, and have each proved disappointing.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Chesterton set the whole world laughing with a series of alleged non-partisan essays on the subject, and the whole affair, controversy and controversialists, was well-nigh swept into the pit by a thundering broadside from George Bernard Shaw.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)