LORD NELSON

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• LORD NELSON (noun)
  The noun LORD NELSON has 1 sense:

1. English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)

  Familiarity information: LORD NELSON used as a noun is very rare.

• LORD NELSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Admiral Nelson; Horatio Nelson; Lord Nelson; Nelson; Viscount Nelson

Instance hypernyms:

admiral; full admiral (the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral)

 Context examples 

Lord Nelson has promised me a vacancy for you, and he’ll be as good as his word.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lord Nelson is under orders to take command of the Mediterranean Fleet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I fear, sir, that there is none for me, said I. But my father has every hope that Lord Nelson will find me a position in the fleet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I had hoped that it was from Lord Nelson,” answered my father.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lord Nelson has promised me that he would find a berth for you, and to-morrow we shall seek him out and remind him of it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the Stones have been in the sea-service, said my mother, apologetically to my uncle, and it is a great chance that he should enter under Lord Nelson’s own patronage.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You have come to see Lord Nelson. He bid me say that he would be with you in an instant. You have doubtless heard that hostilities are about to reopen?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had himself been appointed to the Cato, 64, with post rank, whilst a note had come from Lord Nelson at Portsmouth to say that a vacancy was open for me if I should present myself at once.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

MY father’s appointment with Lord Nelson was an early one, and he was the more anxious to be punctual as he knew how much the Admiral’s movements must be affected by the news which we had heard the night before.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your father was down to chat with me, Master Rodney, and he tells me that the war is going to break out again, and that he hopes to see you here in London before many days are past; for he is coming up to see Lord Nelson and to make inquiry about a ship.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)