ELLISON

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

1. United States novelist who wrote about a young Black man and his struggles in American society (1914-1994)

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

• ELLISON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States novelist who wrote about a young Black man and his struggles in American society (1914-1994)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ellison; Ralph Ellison; Ralph Waldo Ellison

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

It is characterized by inappropriate secretion of gastrin and associated with Zollinger Ellison syndrome.

(Malignant Gastrinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The most frequent pancreatic manifestation is gastrinoma typically leading to Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome.

(Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It produces gastrin and it may be associated with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

(Gastric Gastrin-Producing Neuroendocrine Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

I was breakfasting at the Ellisons,—and her letter, with some others, was brought to me there from my lodgings.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And who are the Ellisons?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The communicative lady I learnt, on inquiry, for I stayed in the shop till they were gone, was a Mrs. Ellison, and that, as I have been since informed, is the name of Miss Grey's guardian.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I never heard any harm of her; indeed I hardly ever heard her mentioned; except that Mrs. Taylor did say this morning, that one day Miss Walker hinted to her, that she believed Mr. and Mrs. Ellison would not be sorry to have Miss Grey married, for she and Mrs. Ellison could never agree.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)