CRAWFORD

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• CRAWFORD (noun)
  The noun CRAWFORD has 2 senses:

1. United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857)

2. United States film actress (1908-1977)

  Familiarity information: CRAWFORD used as a noun is rare.

• CRAWFORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Crawford; Thomas Crawford

Instance hypernyms:

carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker (an artist who creates sculptures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States film actress (1908-1977)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Crawford; Joan Crawford

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

 Context examples 

“I begin now to understand you all, except Miss Price,” said Miss Crawford, as she was walking with the Mr. Bertrams.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A study conducted by two scientists, Professor Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University, and Professor Ian Crawford of Birkbeck, University of London has found that simple lifeforms could have survived on the lunar surface during two periods 3.5 and 4 billion years ago.

(Life Could Exist on Moon 4 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Miss Crawford soon felt that he and his situation might do.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The Crawfords, without wanting to be cured, were very willing to stay.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“There could be no harm in her liking an agreeable man—everybody knew her situation—Mr. Crawford must take care of himself.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I felt that I must be the jest of the room at the time, and Miss Crawford, it is plain, has heard the story.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I do not know,” replied Miss Crawford hesitatingly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Edmund was sorry to hear Miss Crawford, whom he was much disposed to admire, speak so freely of her uncle.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Miss Crawford listened with submission, and said to herself, “He is a well-bred man; he makes the best of it.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I collect,” said Miss Crawford, “that Sotherton is an old place, and a place of some grandeur. In any particular style of building?”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)