MARX

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• MARX (noun)
  The noun MARX has 5 senses:

1. United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1901-1979)

2. United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1893-1964)

3. United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1891-1961)

4. United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1890-1977)

5. founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)

  Familiarity information: MARX used as a noun is common.

• MARX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1901-1979)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Herbert Marx; Marx; Zeppo

Instance hypernyms:

comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)

Holonyms ("Marx" is a member of...):

Marx Brothers (a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1893-1964)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arthur Marx; Harpo; Marx

Instance hypernyms:

comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)

Holonyms ("Marx" is a member of...):

Marx Brothers (a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1891-1961)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chico; Leonard Marx; Marx

Instance hypernyms:

comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)

Holonyms ("Marx" is a member of...):

Marx Brothers (a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1890-1977)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Groucho; Julius Marx; Marx

Instance hypernyms:

comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)

Holonyms ("Marx" is a member of...):

Marx Brothers (a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Karl Marx; Marx

Instance hypernyms:

economic expert; economist (an expert in the science of economics)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

revolutionary; revolutionist; subversive; subverter (a radical supporter of political or social revolution)

 Context examples 

Telegraphic inquiries had been already made which showed that Marx knew nothing of his customer save that he was a good payer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A good deal of clothing with the stamp of Marx and Co., High Holborn, had been left behind.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)