MORTON

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• MORTON (noun)
  The noun MORTON has 1 sense:

1. United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)

  Familiarity information: MORTON used as a noun is very rare.

• MORTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton; Jelly Roll Morton; Morton

Instance hypernyms:

jazz musician; jazzman (a musician who plays or composes jazz music)

 Context examples 

I shall not stay long at Morton, now that my father is dead, and that I am my own master.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Miss Morton, only daughter of the late Lord Morton, with thirty thousand pounds.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was an old acquaintance, Inspector Morton, of Scotland Yard, dressed in unofficial tweeds.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, Morton or Johnson, the Oxford fliers, could romp round him.

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

Yes; and when they go, I shall return to the parsonage at Morton: Hannah will accompany me; and this old house will be shut up.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Warren is a timekeeper at Morton and Waylight’s, in Tottenham Court Road.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"We think NOW,"—said Mr. Dashwood, after a short pause, "of ROBERT'S marrying Miss Morton."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Yes, Mr. Holmes, Cyril Morton, an electrical engineer, and we hope to be married at the end of the summer.

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

Gone over to Morton for a walk; but they would be back in half-an-hour to tea.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There were footfalls outside, the door opened, and Inspector Morton appeared.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)