JEFFERSON

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

1. 3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)

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

• JEFFERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jefferson; President Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson

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)

Derivation:

Jeffersonian (relating to or characteristic of Thomas Jefferson or his principles or theories)

 Context examples 

Because I question Jefferson and the unscientific Frenchmen who informed his mind, does not make me a socialist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was our good vicar, Mr. Jefferson, who loved the whole world save only Mr. Slack, the Baptist minister of Clayton; and there was kindly Mr. Slack, who was all men’s brother save only of Mr. Jefferson, the vicar of Friar’s Oak.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)