JOHN REED

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• JOHN REED (noun)
  The noun JOHN REED has 1 sense:

1. United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

  Familiarity information: JOHN REED used as a noun is very rare.

• JOHN REED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Reed; Reed

Instance hypernyms:

commie; communist (a socialist who advocates communism)

journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

 Context examples 

But John Reed knocked me down, and my aunt shut me up in the red-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Boh! Madam Mope!" cried the voice of John Reed; then he paused: he found the room apparently empty.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

John Reed is dead, too, sir: he ruined himself and half-ruined his family, and is supposed to have committed suicide.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is well I drew the curtain, thought I; and I wished fervently he might not discover my hiding-place: nor would John Reed have found it out himself; he was not quick either of vision or conception; but Eliza just put her head in at the door, and said at once—She is in the window-seat, to be sure, Jack.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was Miss Reed that found them out: I believe she was envious; and now she and her sister lead a cat and dog life together; they are always quarrelling—Well, and what of John Reed?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Again I reflected: I scarcely knew what school was: Bessie sometimes spoke of it as a place where young ladies sat in the stocks, wore backboards, and were expected to be exceedingly genteel and precise: John Reed hated his school, and abused his master; but John Reed's tastes were no rule for mine, and if Bessie's accounts of school-discipline (gathered from the young ladies of a family where she had lived before coming to Gateshead) were somewhat appalling, her details of certain accomplishments attained by these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I gathered my energies and launched them in this blunt sentence—I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed; and this book about the liar, you may give to your girl, Georgiana, for it is she who tells lies, and not I.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)