PATERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paterson mean? 

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

1. American Revolutionary leader (born in Ireland) who was a member of the Constitutional Convention (1745-1806)

2. a city of northeastern New Jersey

  Familiarity information: PATERSON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American Revolutionary leader (born in Ireland) who was a member of the Constitutional Convention (1745-1806)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Paterson; William Patterson

Instance hypernyms:

American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city of northeastern New Jersey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Paterson" is a part of...):

Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

Also the copy of letter to Carter Paterson, and their reply; of both of these I got copies.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then I remember Mr. Paterson, the farmer, who was what you would now call a Radical, though at that time some called him a Priestley-ite, and some a Fox-ite, and nearly everybody a traitor.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British barque Sophy Anderson, of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.

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

From thence I went on to Carter Paterson's central office, where I met with the utmost courtesy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)