IVES

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• IVES (noun)
  The noun IVES has 2 senses:

1. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954)

2. United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed 'Currier & Ives' (1824-1895)

  Familiarity information: IVES used as a noun is rare.

• IVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Charles Edward Ives; Ives

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed 'Currier & Ives' (1824-1895)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ives; James Ives; James Merritt Ives

Instance hypernyms:

lithographer (a printmaker who uses lithography)

 Context examples 

By St. Ives! if we come not quickly to some counsel we shall be burned like young rooks in a nest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She would not herself stay in the house another day and was starting that very afternoon to rejoin her family at St. Ives.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One day last spring, in town, I was in company with two men, striking instances of what I am talking of; Lord St Ives, whose father we all know to have been a country curate, without bread to eat; I was to give place to Lord St Ives, and a certain Admiral Baldwin, the most deplorable-looking personage you can imagine; his face the colour of mahogany, rough and rugged to the last degree; all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs of a side, and nothing but a dab of powder at top. 'In the name of heaven, who is that old fellow?' said I to a friend of mine who was standing near, (Sir Basil Morley).

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“Ha! Notre Dame Du Guesclin! Saint Ives! Saint Ives!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“They will burn us out, since they cannot win their way past us. Shoot straight and hard, archers; for, by St. Ives! our good swords are of little use to us.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By Saint Ives! you speak sooth, young squire,” said Du Guesclin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By St. Ives! it is the good priest who spake for them in the hall.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“In our fondest hopes we never thought to hold Bordeaux. By Saint Ives! this news hath warmed the heart within me. Our dear country will then be very great in the future, Tiphaine?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By Saint Ives! it is true,” cried Sir Bertrand, striding across to the recess where the ungainly, funnel-shaped, thick-ribbed engines were standing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is, my lord, and I swear it by St. Ives of Brittany.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)