HAMPTON

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

1. United States musician who was the first to use the vibraphone as a jazz instrument (1913-2002)

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

• HAMPTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States musician who was the first to use the vibraphone as a jazz instrument (1913-2002)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hampton; Lionel Hampton

Instance hypernyms:

jazz musician; jazzman (a musician who plays or composes jazz music)

 Context examples 

This includes a static inlet performance test and a low-speed wind tunnel test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)

"Normally the dust would fall down in a day or so," said the paper's lead author, Nicholas Heavens of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

I saw something like them in Hampton Court, but there they were worn and frayed and moth-eaten.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Short distance travel, such as the distance between Ojai and Los Angeles or from the Hamptons and New York City (about 100-200 miles) would be perfect for finding interesting new people, and maybe one or two you’d like to know better in the romantic sense.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Yet I have not a word to say against the Hampton men, for there are no better comrades or truer archers in the whole Company than some who learned to loose the string in these very parts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These age-old lakes have long tolerated the presence of humans, supporting some of the earliest known settlements and playing key roles in our cultural evolution and development, state Stephanie Hampton, a limnologist (lake scientist) at Washington State University.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

I enjoyed the trips to Hampton Court and the Kensington Museum more than anything else, for at Hampton I saw Raphael's cartoons, and at the Museum, rooms full of pictures by Turner, Lawrence, Reynolds, Hogarth, and the other great creatures.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The walls were hung all round with most elaborate and brightly colored tapestry, representing the achievements of Sir Bevis of Hampton, and behind this convenient screen were stored the tables dormant and benches which would be needed for banquet or high festivity.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)