ROBERTS

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• ROBERTS (noun)
  The noun ROBERTS has 4 senses:

1. United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)

2. United States evangelist (born 1918)

3. United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957)

4. a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)

  Familiarity information: ROBERTS used as a noun is uncommon.

• ROBERTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Richard J. Roberts; Richard John Roberts; Roberts

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States evangelist (born 1918)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Oral Roberts; Roberts

Instance hypernyms:

evangelist; gospeler; gospeller; revivalist (a preacher of the Christian gospel)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Kenneth Roberts; Roberts

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 4

Meaning:

A Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bartholomew Roberts; Roberts

Instance hypernyms:

buccaneer; pirate; sea robber; sea rover (someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation)

 Context examples 

That was Roberts' men, that was, and comed of changing names to their ships—ROYAL FORTUNE and so on.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Among the results, participants in the whole-grain group lost approximately 100 more calories per day than refined-grain eaters—the equivalent of walking briskly for 30 minutes, notes Roberts.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

It all began on June 27, when Matty Roberts posted a event invitation on social media site Facebook.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

Imaging studies of depressed patients have given us a clue about some of the brain regions that may be involved in anhedonia, but we still don't know which of these regions is causally responsible, says Professor Angela Roberts from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.

(Marmoset study gives insights into loss of pleasure in depression, University of Cambridge)

Roberts is about 20 years old and from Bakersfield, California.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

Roberts says his event, "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us", was posted as a joke.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

Thursday night, "Alien Stock" was held in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada with involvement of original poster Matty Roberts.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)