STEPHEN

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

1. English writer (1832-1904)

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

• STEPHEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English writer (1832-1904)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Sir Leslie Stephen; Stephen

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

“Certes, Stephen Hapgood, his wisdom doth not suffice,” cried the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We lunched at Stephen’s, the fashionable inn in Bond Street, where I saw a line of tilburys and saddle-horses, which stretched from the door to the further end of the street.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

New research by University of Colorado Boulder professor Stephen Mojzsis outlines a likely cause for these mysterious features of Mars: a colossal impact with a large asteroid early in the planet's history.

(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Stephen Houston, professor of archaeology and anthropology at Brown University, told the BBC that the revelation of the sprawling Central American civilization was "breathtaking."

(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)

I cured him at last; but he was very bad all the winter—and this was such a day, I could not help going to him up in his room before we set off to advise him not to venture: he was putting on his wig; so I said, 'Coachman, you had much better not go; your Lady and I shall be very safe; you know how steady Stephen is, and Charles has been upon the leaders so often now, that I am sure there is no fear.'

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As one of the world's leading "planet hunters," San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane focuses on finding habitable zones, areas where water could exist in a liquid state on a planet's surface if there's sufficient atmospheric pressure.

(Searching for Life on Wolf 1061 Exoplanet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There’s over 100 bones there, so a whole bunch of the skeleton, and now we get to get down to the fun business of actually studying it, figuring out what it is, said Stephen Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh.

(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)

The British astronomer Stephen Hawking has famously compared crossing this boundary to going over Niagra Falls in a canoe: if you are above the falls, it is still possible to escape if you paddle hard enough.

(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“Perchance it would be as well that we should send for Father Stephen,” said Sir Tristram.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Sir Stephen is my elder brother, and I am Arthur, the second son,” said the youth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)