MORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Morgan mean? 

• MORGAN (noun)
  The noun MORGAN has 6 senses:

1. United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)

2. United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945)

3. a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)

4. soldier in the American Revolution who defeated the British in the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802)

5. United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913)

6. an American breed of small compact saddle horses

  Familiarity information: MORGAN used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lewis Henry Morgan; Morgan

Instance hypernyms:

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Morgan; Thomas Hunt Morgan

Instance hypernyms:

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Morgan; Morgan; Sir Henry Morgan

Instance hypernyms:

buccaneer; pirate; sea robber; sea rover (someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Soldier in the American Revolution who defeated the British in the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Daniel Morgan; Morgan

Instance hypernyms:

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

J. P. Morgan; John Pierpont Morgan; Morgan

Instance hypernyms:

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An American breed of small compact saddle horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)

 Context examples 

“He can't 'a found the treasure,” said old Morgan, hurrying past us from the right, “for that's clean a-top.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

First investigated by T.H.Morgan and his group, it has been extensively used in genetic studies.

(Drosophila, NCI Thesaurus)

"We found that facial analysis services performed consistently worse on transgender individuals, and were universally unable to classify non-binary genders," said lead author Morgan Klaus Scheuerman.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)

Moriarty himself is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of to-night.

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

“Ah, there,” said Morgan, “that comed of sp'iling Bibles.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Aye, aye, sir, he took it, sure enough,” returned Morgan.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“That's fair enow,” said the old man Morgan.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Aye, aye,” returned Morgan; “I mind him; he owed me money, he did, and took my knife ashore with him.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I saw him dead with these here deadlights,” said Morgan.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yet there were still three upon that island—Silver, and old Morgan, and Ben Gunn—who had each taken his share in these crimes, as each had hoped in vain to share in the reward.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)