LINCOLN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lincoln mean? 

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

1. 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

2. capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska

3. long-wooled mutton sheep originally from Lincolnshire

  Familiarity information: LINCOLN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINCOLN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln; President Abraham Lincoln; President Lincoln

Instance hypernyms:

attorney; lawyer (a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice)

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:

Lincolnian (of or relating to or in the manner of Abraham Lincoln)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Nebraska; Lincoln

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Lincoln"):

University of Nebraska (a university in Lincoln, Nebraska)

Holonyms ("Lincoln" is a part of...):

Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska (a midwestern state on the Great Plains)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Long-wooled mutton sheep originally from Lincolnshire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)

 Context examples 

The nearest settlement to Area 51 is Rachel in Lincoln County.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

I had spent the day wearily over books, and, simply to keep my mind occupied, went over some of the matters I had been examined in at Lincoln's Inn.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As she stood there, Major Lincoln passed by, and a minute after she heard him saying to his mother... They are making a fool of that little girl.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We arrived at Lincoln's Inn Fields without any new adventures, except encountering an unlucky donkey in a costermonger's cart, who suggested painful associations to my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Instead of combating the heat, two University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have embraced it as an alternative energy source that would allow computing at ultra-high temperatures.

(Harnessing Heat to Power Computers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Asteroid 2004 BL86 was initially discovered on Jan. 30, 2004 by a telescope of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey in White Sands, New Mexico.

(Asteroid to Fly By Earth on January 26, NASA)

She knew Martin was poor, and his condition she associated in her mind with the boyhood of Abraham Lincoln, of Mr. Butler, and of other men who had become successes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yet I trust that I may be able to reach Brockenhurst to-night, where I may have all that heart can desire; for oh! sir, but my son is a fine man, with a kindly heart of his own, and it is as good as food to me to think that he should have a doublet of Lincoln green to his back and be the King's own paid man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I then told Steerforth that my aunt was in town awaiting me (as I found from her letter), and that she had taken lodgings for a week at a kind of private hotel at Lincoln's Inn Fields, where there was a stone staircase, and a convenient door in the roof; my aunt being firmly persuaded that every house in London was going to be burnt down every night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Major Lincoln asked who 'the fresh little girl with the beautiful eyes' was, and Mr. Moffat insisted on dancing with her because she 'didn't dawdle, but had some spring in her', as he gracefully expressed it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)