FAIRBANKS

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

1. United States film actor; son of Douglas Elton Fairbanks, (1909-2000)

2. United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939)

  Familiarity information: FAIRBANKS used as a noun is rare.

• FAIRBANKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States film actor; son of Douglas Elton Fairbanks, (1909-2000)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; Fairbanks

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Douglas Elton Fairbanks; Douglas Fairbanks; Fairbanks; Julius Ullman

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

 Context examples 

Until now, we've only thought of thermokarst lakes as positive contributors to climate warming, said lead researcher Katey Walter Anthony, associate research professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

Ben A. Potter of the University of Alaska Fairbanks led the archaeological team that made the discovery in late 2013 at an excavation of the Upward Sun River site.

(Archaeologists discover remains of Ice-Age infants in Alaska, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

How Greenland will look in the future — in a couple hundred years or in 1,000 years — whether there will be Greenland, or at least a Greenland similar to today, is up to us, said researcher Andy Aschwanden of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.

(New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future, National Science Foundation)

And yet a man like Principal Fairbanks of Oxford—a man who sits in an even higher place than you, Judge Blount—has said that Spencer will be dismissed by posterity as a poet and dreamer rather than a thinker.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)