HART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hart mean? 

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

1. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961)

2. United States lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (1895-1943)

3. a male deer, especially an adult male red deer

  Familiarity information: HART used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hart; Moss Hart

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (1895-1943)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hart; Lorenz Hart; Lorenz Milton Hart

Instance hypernyms:

lyricist; lyrist (a person who writes the words for songs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A male deer, especially an adult male red deer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hart; stag

Hypernyms ("hart" is a kind of...):

American elk; Cervus elaphus; elk; red deer; wapiti (common deer of temperate Europe and Asia)

 Context examples 

When she reached the White Hart, and made her way to the proper apartment, she found herself neither arriving quite in time, nor the first to arrive.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Hart and Norris proposed that a mucinous tumor should be classified as borderline when stromal invasion is uncertain and the atypical lining epithelium is less than four cells in thickness.

(Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Only half an hour before her friend called for her at Mrs. Goddard's, her evil stars had led her to the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to _The Rev. Philip Elton, White-Hart, Bath_, was to be seen under the operation of being lifted into the butcher's cart, which was to convey it to where the coaches past; and every thing in this world, excepting that trunk and the direction, was consequently a blank.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They were come to Bath for a few days with Mrs Musgrove, and were at the White Hart.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They all three called in Rivers Street for a couple of minutes; but Anne convinced herself that a day's delay of the intended communication could be of no consequence, and hastened forward to the White Hart, to see again the friends and companions of the last autumn, with an eagerness of good-will which many associations contributed to form.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)