JONATHAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jonathan mean? 

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

1. red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JONATHAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Jonathan" is a kind of...):

dessert apple; eating apple (an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking)

 Context examples 

I sympathise with her, for I do the same, only Jonathan and I will start in life in a very simple way, and shall have to try to make both ends meet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Lindsey and Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a geophysicist at Rice University in Houston, led the experiment with the assistance of Craig Dawe of MBARI, which owns the fiber-optic cable.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

A team led by Dr. Tao Pan at the University of Chicago and Dr. Jonathan Yewdell at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) set out to measure the accuracy of aminoacylation in living cells and animals.

(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)

The work is the result of a collaboration among Naveen Bisht, a scientist at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research in New Delhi, India; Joseph Jez, a plant biologist at Washington University; and Jonathan Gershenzon of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany.

(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)

That is not like Jonathan; I do not understand it, and it makes me uneasy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I must write no more; I must keep it to say to Jonathan, my husband.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I am unhappy about Lucy and about Jonathan.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Dear Madam,—I write by desire of Mr. Jonathan Harker, who is himself not strong enough to write, though progressing well, thanks to God and St. Joseph and Ste. Mary.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Another week gone, and no news from Jonathan, not even to Mr. Hawkins, from whom I have heard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I felt a little sad myself, for I could not but feel how absolutely happy it would have been had Jonathan been with me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)