NORMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Norman mean? 

• NORMAN (noun)
  The noun NORMAN has 3 senses:

1. United States operatic soprano (born in 1945)

2. Australian golfer (born in 1955)

3. an inhabitant of Normandy

  Familiarity information: NORMAN used as a noun is uncommon.

• NORMAN (adjective)
  The adjective NORMAN has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Normandy

2. of or relating to or characteristic of the Normans

  Familiarity information: NORMAN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States operatic soprano (born in 1945)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jessye Norman; Norman

Instance hypernyms:

soprano (a female singer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Australian golfer (born in 1955)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Greg Norman; Gregory John Norman; Norman

Instance hypernyms:

golf player; golfer; linksman (someone who plays the game of golf)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An inhabitant of Normandy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman (a person of French nationality)

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

Normandie; Normandy (a former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie)

• NORMAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Normandy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Norman beaches

Pertainym:

Normandy (a former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the Normans

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the Norman Invasion in 1066

Pertainym:

Norman (an inhabitant of Normandy)

 Context examples 

Sir Nigel's trust, however, still frowned above the smooth-flowing waters of the Avon, very much as the stern race of early Anglo-Normans had designed it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What rotten good is our education, yours and mine and Arthur's and Norman's?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

‘It was there at the Norman Conquest in all probability,’ he answered.

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

Heitor Cantarella received the International Fertilizer Association’s (IFA) Norman Borlaug Award on World Fertilizer Day, on 13 October — the date German chemist Fritz Haber discovered the synthesis of ammonia in 1908.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

Here and there the pale, aquiline features of a sporting Corinthian recalled rather the Norman type, but in the main these stolid, heavy-jowled faces, belonging to men whose whole life was a battle, were the nearest suggestion which we have had in modern times of those fierce pirates and rovers from whose loins we have sprung.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a week after he cured her headache that a moonlight sail on Lake Merritt was proposed by Norman and seconded by Arthur and Olney.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Another from the Norman whizzed into the waist, broke the back of a horse, and crashed its way through the side of the vessel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Norman and Arthur knew that speech.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They are all dead—save only the Norman knight who stands behind you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Opposite him was Arthur, and Arthur's brother, Norman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)