OSWALD

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

1. United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963)

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

• OSWALD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lee Harvey Oswald; Oswald

Instance hypernyms:

assassin; assassinator; bravo (a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed)

 Context examples 

One such environment, in St Oswald's Bay, mimics the conditions on Mars billions of years ago.

(Red Planet May Have Harbored Life in Past, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Jessica Oswald and her colleagues extracted and sequenced genetic material from the 2,500-year-old C. creightoni femur.

(Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave, National Science Foundation)

The study found that goethite in St Oswald's Bay hosted many microbes as well as traces of their fossilised organic remains.

(Red Planet May Have Harbored Life in Past, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)