HERBERT

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

1. United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924)

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

• HERBERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Herbert; Victor Herbert

Instance hypernyms:

musician (artist who composes or conducts music as a profession)

 Context examples 

Herbert Spencer came the nearest, which was not very near.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center is Columbia University's organizational component for the conduct of basic, clinical, and population-based cancer research and patient care.

(Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

So he turned the conversation to Herbert Spencer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But what's all that got to do with Herbert Spencer anyway?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Herbert Spencer," said the man at the desk in the library, "oh, yes, a great mind."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"There is no god but the Unknowable, and Herbert Spencer is its prophet," Judge Blount was saying at that moment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And I still believe that Herbert Spencer is a great and noble man and that Judge Blount is an unmitigated ass.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But Herbert Spencer had shown him not only that it was not ridiculous, but that it was impossible for there to be no connection.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was reading an essay of Saleeby's the other day, and the best Saleeby could say was that Herbert Spencer nearly succeeded in answering Berkeley.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Here's fresh meat for your axe, Kreis," he said; "a rose-white youth with the ardor of a lover for Herbert Spencer. Make a Haeckelite of him—if you can."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)