ROBINSON

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• ROBINSON (noun)
  The noun ROBINSON has 7 senses:

1. English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)

2. United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989)

3. Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958)

4. United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)

5. United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)

6. United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)

7. United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973)

  Familiarity information: ROBINSON used as a noun is common.

• ROBINSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Robert Robinson; Robinson; Sir Robert Robinson

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ray Robinson; Robinson; Sugar Ray Robinson; Walker Smith

Instance hypernyms:

gladiator; prizefighter (a professional boxer)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson; Lennox Robinson; Robinson

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Harvey Robinson; Robinson

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jack Roosevelt Robinson; Jackie Robinson; Robinson

Instance hypernyms:

ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)

Sense 6

Meaning:

United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edwin Arlington Robinson; Robinson

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 7

Meaning:

United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward G. Robinson; Edward Goldenberg Robinson; Robinson

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

 Context examples 

To be sure that did seem as if he admired her—indeed I rather believe he did—I heard something about it—but I hardly know what—something about Mr. Robinson.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The work was performed by a team of researchers led by Tyler Robinson, a NASA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

Henry, remember that Robinson is spoken to about it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“My name is John Robinson,” he answered with a sidelong glance.

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

My aunt sitting on a quantity of luggage, with her two birds before her, and her cat on her knee, like a female Robinson Crusoe, drinking tea.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I perfectly understand Mr Robinson's directions, and have no fears; and indeed, Mary, I cannot wonder at your husband.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I had not been at home above ten days, when Captain William Robinson, a Cornish man, commander of the Hopewell, a stout ship of three hundred tons, came to my house.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Amongst the books to which I am indebted for my material in my endeavour to draw various phases of life and character in England at the beginning of the century, I would particularly mention Ashton’s Dawn of the Nineteenth Century; Gronow’s “Reminiscences;” Fitzgerald’s “Life and Times of George IV.;” Jesse’s “Life of Brummell;” “Boxiana;” “Pugilistica;” Harper’s “Brighton Road;” Robinson’s “Last Earl of Barrymore” and “Old Q.;” Rice’s “History of the Turf;” Tristram’s “Coaching Days;” James’s “Naval History;” Clark Russell’s “Collingwood” and “Nelson.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With Titan as their example, Robinson and colleagues found that hazes high above some transiting exoplanets might strictly limit what their spectra can reveal to planet transit observers.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)