MEREDITH

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• MEREDITH (noun)
  The noun MEREDITH has 2 senses:

1. United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)

2. English novelist and poet (1828-1909)

  Familiarity information: MEREDITH used as a noun is rare.

• MEREDITH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Howard Meredith; James Meredith; Meredith

Instance hypernyms:

civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English novelist and poet (1828-1909)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

George Meredith; Meredith

Instance hypernyms:

novelist (one who writes novels)

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

 Context examples 

And now let us talk about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all minor matters until to-morrow.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Lowell-Meredith Company captured the collection of all his essays, and the Maxmillian Company got his Sea Lyrics and the Love-cycle, the latter receiving serial publication in the Ladies' Home Companion after the payment of an extortionate price.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)