LOWELL

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• LOWELL (noun)
  The noun LOWELL has 4 senses:

1. United States poet (1917-1977)

2. United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916)

3. United States poet (1874-1925)

4. United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)

  Familiarity information: LOWELL used as a noun is uncommon.

• LOWELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States poet (1917-1977)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lowell; Robert Lowell; Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr.

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lowell; Percival Lowell

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States poet (1874-1925)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Amy Lowell; Lowell

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Abbott Lawrence Lowell; Lowell

Instance hypernyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

 Context examples 

"Overdue," after having been declined by a number of magazines, came to rest at the Meredith-Lowell Company.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he divined the cause of her agitation and handed her the Meredith-Lowell letter which had accompanied the check.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Overdue" was rushed upon the market by the Meredith-Lowell Company in the height of his popularity, and being fiction, in point of sales it made even a bigger strike than "The Shame of the Sun."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)