GIBSON

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• GIBSON (noun)
  The noun GIBSON has 3 senses:

1. United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the 'Gibson girl' (1867-1944)

2. Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956)

3. United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003)

  Familiarity information: GIBSON used as a noun is uncommon.

• GIBSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the 'Gibson girl' (1867-1944)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

C. D. Gibson; Charles Dana Gibson; Gibson

Instance hypernyms:

illustrator (an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gibson; Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson; Mel Gibson

Instance hypernyms:

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

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Althea Gibson; Gibson

Instance hypernyms:

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

 Context examples 

And then I have made a little purchase within this half year; East Kingham Farm, you must remember the place, where old Gibson used to live.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

John does not at all resemble his father, and I am glad of it: John is like me and like my brothers—he is quite a Gibson.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Who calls me aunt? You are not one of the Gibsons; and yet I know you—that face, and the eyes and forehead, are quiet familiar to me: you are like—why, you are like Jane Eyre!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Georgiana, when not unburdening her heart to me, spent most of her time in lying on the sofa, fretting about the dulness of the house, and wishing over and over again that her aunt Gibson would send her an invitation up to town.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I wished to leave immediately after the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who had come down to direct his sister's interment and settle the family affairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)