SULLIVAN

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• SULLIVAN (noun)
  The noun SULLIVAN has 5 senses:

1. United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase 'form follows function' (1856-1924)

2. United States psychiatrist (1892-1949)

3. United States host on a well known television variety show (1902-1974)

4. United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936)

5. English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900)

  Familiarity information: SULLIVAN used as a noun is common.

• SULLIVAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase 'form follows function' (1856-1924)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Louis Henri Sullivan; Louis Henry Sullivan; Louis Sullivan; Sullivan

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States psychiatrist (1892-1949)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Harry Stack Sullivan; Sullivan

Instance hypernyms:

head-shrinker; psychiatrist; shrink (a physician who specializes in psychiatry)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States host on a well known television variety show (1902-1974)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ed Sullivan; Edward Vincent Sullivan; Sullivan

Instance hypernyms:

emcee; host; master of ceremonies (a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers))

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anne Mansfield Sullivan; Anne Sullivan; Sullivan

Instance hypernyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Sense 5

Meaning:

English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arthur Seymour Sullivan; Arthur Sullivan; Sir Arthur Sullivan; Sullivan

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

 Context examples 

Modern theory suggests that the answer is probably a mix of both but proving the existence of these cold streams of gas had remained a major challenge until now, says co-author Donal O'Sullivan, a doctoral student in Martin's group who built part of the imager.

(Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies, National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.)

Co-leaders of the study are Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Naomi Wray, PhD, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)