JOHNSON

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• JOHNSON (noun)
  The noun JOHNSON has 3 senses:

1. English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)

2. 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)

3. 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)

  Familiarity information: JOHNSON used as a noun is uncommon.

• JOHNSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dr. Johnson; Johnson; Samuel Johnson

Instance hypernyms:

lexicographer; lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Johnson; LBJ; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Lyndon Johnson; President Johnson; President Lyndon Johnson

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Andrew Johnson; Johnson; President Andrew Johnson; President Johnson

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)

 Context examples 

"And into beautiful milk from Mrs. Johnson's beautiful cow," Madge added. "To-morrow's the first of the month, you know."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was the Ghost herself that lured Johnson into signing for the voyage, but he is already beginning to repent.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"The 3.2-billion-year-old section of ocean crust we studied looks exactly like much, much younger ocean crust," Johnson said.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)

Mutation of the gene is associated with Dubin-Johnson syndrome.

(ABCC2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Sidney Johnson, the senior clerk.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Second man at Johnson and Merivale's, 41 Chancery Lane."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hewett, Cook, Johnson, Cunningham, your men are of the poop-guard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Claire Johnson, the chief executive of Hydrogen Mobility Australia, an industry association, says the pioneering research could forever change the transport sector.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)

Why, Morton or Johnson, the Oxford fliers, could romp round him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Johnson's celebrated judgment as to matrimony and celibacy, and say, that though Mansfield Park might have some pains, Portsmouth could have no pleasures.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)