SHERLOCK HOLMES

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• SHERLOCK HOLMES (noun)
  The noun SHERLOCK HOLMES has 1 sense:

1. a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle

  Familiarity information: SHERLOCK HOLMES used as a noun is very rare.

• SHERLOCK HOLMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Holmes; Sherlock Holmes

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

I think that the change would do you good, and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes’ cases.

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

And then suddenly it struck me that what was dark to me might be very light to Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

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

“I think I have known how to frame the letter,” said Sherlock Holmes.

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

“Wait a bit, Gregson,” said Sherlock Holmes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would not require a Sherlock Holmes to deduce that you have been cooking over a camp-fire, to say nothing of trying out seal-blubber.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled.

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

During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life.

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

When I turned again, Sherlock Holmes was standing smiling at me across my study table.

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

I am as sure of that as that my own name is Sherlock Holmes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?” said she.

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