PAXTON

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

1. English architect (1801-1865)

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

• PAXTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English architect (1801-1865)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Joseph Paxton; Paxton; Sir Joseph Paxton

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

 Context examples 

There were only ourselves and the servants there, one or two old friends of his from Exeter, his London agent, and a gentleman representing Sir John Paxton, the President of the Incorporated Law Society.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This Braithwaite Lowrey—I knew his father, lost in the Lively off Greenland in '20; or Andrew Woodhouse, drowned in the same seas in 1777; or John Paxton, drowned off Cape Farewell a year later; or old John Rawlings, whose grandfather sailed with me, drowned in the Gulf of Finland in '50.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)