OWEN

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

1. Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

2. English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)

  Familiarity information: OWEN used as a noun is rare.

• OWEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Owen; Robert Owen

Instance hypernyms:

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Owen; Sir Richard Owen

Instance hypernyms:

comparative anatomist (anatomist who compares the anatomy of different animals)

fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist (a specialist in paleontology)

 Context examples 

The west countryman had emerged from his dressing-tent, followed by Dutch Sam and Tom Owen, who were acting as his seconds.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His friend Mr. Owen had sisters; he might find them attractive.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Professor Christopher G Owen, who led the research, said, "These findings suggest increasing sleep duration could offer a simple approach to reducing levels of body fat and type 2 diabetes risk from early life.

(An Hour Less Sleep Ups Diabetes Risk, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“When you take a photograph, the information stored in pixels is generally limited to just three components – red, green, and blue,” said co-first author Tom Albrow-Owen.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

George and Owen were singing snatches of songs and gibbering like two great apes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He did not, the only time he went to see Mr. Owen before.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Tom Owen and his assistant, Fogo, with the help of the ring-keepers, plucked up the stakes and ropes, and carried them off across country.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I may explain, then, that our friend here spent last evening in the company of his two brothers, Owen and George, and of his sister Brenda, at their house of Tredannick Wartha, which is near the old stone cross upon the moor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then they can brag all their lives that they had hit Tom Owen.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Are you Tom Owen the bruiser?’ says one o’ them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)