DARWIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Darwin mean? 

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

1. English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)

2. provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia

  Familiarity information: DARWIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARWIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Charles Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin; Darwin

Instance hypernyms:

natural scientist; naturalist (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))

Derivation:

Darwinian (of or relating to Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

provincial capital (the capital city of a province)

Holonyms ("Darwin" is a part of...):

Northern Territory (a territory in north central Australia)

 Context examples 

And she doesn't know anything more about Darwin and evolution than I do about King Solomon's mines.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The animals were so unused to humans that they did not see Darwin – a potential predator - as a threat.

(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)

Also regarded as the father of evolution, Darwin studied these birds to come up with his theory of natural selection.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)

“But you who read Spencer and Darwin and have never seen the inside of a school, how did you learn to read and write?” I queried.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

DEAR PROFESSOR CHALLENGER, it said, As a humble student of Nature, I have always taken the most profound interest in your speculations as to the differences between Darwin and Weissmann.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the north Australian city of Darwin, about 25,000 homes were also without power after a tropical cyclone felled trees.

(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The illnesses are in other ways very different from each other, but we have found a role for inflammation in all of them, says Professor James Rowe from the Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and a Fellow of Darwin College .

(Inflammation in the brain linked to several forms of dementia, University of Cambridge)

If you remove planet nine from the model and instead allow for lots of small objects scattered across a wide area, collective attractions between those objects could just as easily account for the eccentric orbits we see in some TNOs, said Antranik Sefilian, who is a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a member of Darwin College.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

Darwin later wrote On the Origin of Species after his study of the Ecuadorean islands.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)

The research focused on one species of Darwin’s iconic finches - the small ground finch, Geospiza fuliginosa.

(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)