HARDING

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

1. 29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (1865-1823)

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

• HARDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (1865-1823)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Harding; President Harding; Warren Gamaliel Harding; Warren Harding

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

 Context examples 

And now, if you have quite finished, we will hark back to Kensington and see what the manager of Harding Brothers has to say on the matter.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Rushworth had left her husband's house: Mr. Rushworth had been in great anger and distress to him (Mr. Harding) for his advice; Mr. Harding feared there had been at least very flagrant indiscretion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Harding, of Harding Brothers, said that they had sold you their last copy, and he gave me your address.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A young assistant informed us that Mr. Harding would be absent until afternoon, and that he was himself a newcomer, who could give us no information.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We must come back in the afternoon, if Mr. Harding will not be here until then.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I picked it up cheap from Harding Brothers, two doors from the High Street Station.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes had taken several notes during Mr. Harding’s evidence, and I could see that he was thoroughly satisfied by the turn which affairs were taking.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sherlock Holmes and I walked together to the High Street, where we stopped at the shop of Harding Brothers, whence the bust had been purchased.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A reference to his books showed that hundreds of casts had been taken from a marble copy of Devine’s head of Napoleon, but that the three which had been sent to Morse Hudson a year or so before had been half of a batch of six, the other three being sent to Harding Brothers, of Kensington.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)