HARRISON

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• HARRISON (noun)
  The noun HARRISON has 4 senses:

1. English actor on stage and in films (1908-1990)

2. English rock star; lead guitarist of the Beatles (1943-2001)

3. 23rd President of the United States (1833-1901)

4. 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)

  Familiarity information: HARRISON used as a noun is uncommon.

• HARRISON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English actor on stage and in films (1908-1990)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Harrison; Reginald Carey Harrison; Rex Harrison; Sir Rex Harrison

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

English rock star; lead guitarist of the Beatles (1943-2001)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

George Harrison; Harrison

Instance hypernyms:

rock star (a famous singer of rock music)

Holonyms ("Harrison" is a member of...):

Beatles (a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of them written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon))

Sense 3

Meaning:

23rd President of the United States (1833-1901)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Benjamin Harrison; Harrison; President Benjamin Harrison; President Harrison

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)

Sense 4

Meaning:

9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Harrison; President Harrison; President William Henry Harrison; William Henry Harrison

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 

“They are more visible from the road,” suggested Mr. Joseph Harrison.

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

How d’ye do, Mrs. Harrison?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Straight forward he raced, the boat-puller Harrison at his heels and gaining on him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The discovery stems from scientist Maria Harrison’s focus on plants’ symbiotic relationships with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)

She could not recollect what it was that she had heard about one of the Miss Maddoxes, or what it was that Lady Prescott had noticed in Fanny: she was not sure whether Colonel Harrison had been talking of Mr. Crawford or of William when he said he was the finest young man in the room—somebody had whispered something to her; she had forgot to ask Sir Thomas what it could be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“And I also,” said Miss Harrison.

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

“Glad to see you looking so fit, Harrison,” said my uncle, running his eyes over him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meantime Harrison had started out on the halyards.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To discover how plants control the amount of fungal colonization, Harrison and colleagues looked at genes that encode short proteins called CLE peptides in the species Medicago truncatula and Brachypodium distachyon.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)

Why had he asked Miss Harrison to remain in the sick-room all day?

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