HUGHES

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

1. English poet (born in 1930)

2. United States writer (1902-1967)

3. United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)

4. United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1862-1948)

  Familiarity information: HUGHES used as a noun is uncommon.

• HUGHES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English poet (born in 1930)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward James Hughes; Hughes; Ted Hughes

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States writer (1902-1967)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hughes; James Langston Hughes; Langston Hughes

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Howard Hughes; Howard Robard Hughes; Hughes

Instance hypernyms:

aeronaut; airman; aviator; flier; flyer (someone who operates an aircraft)

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1862-1948)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Charles Evans Hughes; Hughes

Instance hypernyms:

chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)

 Context examples 

Ah! Dr. Hughes I declare—and Mrs. Hughes.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Hughes talked to me a great deal about the family.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Hughes says: There has been an assumption that it’s really difficult to get dads involved in research like this.

(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)

A team of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University has been exploring a different approach.

(HIV Immunotherapy Promising in First Human Study, NIH)

Marcus Hughes, a computer scientist at CU Boulder and lead author of the study, created a computer algorithm that can look at all the Solar Ultraviolet Imager images simultaneously and spot patterns in the data.

(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)

I cannot be quite positive about that, my dear; I have some idea he is; but, however, he is a very fine young man, Mrs. Hughes says, and likely to do very well.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Must go and speak to Dr. and Mrs. Hughes for a moment.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Lead author, Professor Claire Hughes from Cambridge’s Centre for Family Research, said: “For too long, the experiences of first-time dads has either been side-lined or treated in isolation from that of mums. This needs to change because difficulties in children’s early relationships with both mothers and fathers can have long-term effects.###!!!###

(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)

Yes, an acquaintance of Mrs. Hughes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Hughes now joined them, and asked Miss Tilney if she was ready to go.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)