THOMAS

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

1. United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)

2. United States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968)

3. a radio broadcast journalist during World War I and World War II noted for his nightly new broadcast (1892-1981)

4. Welsh poet (1914-1953)

5. the Apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he saw Jesus with his own eyes

  Familiarity information: THOMAS used as a noun is common.

• THOMAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Seth Thomas; Thomas

Instance hypernyms:

clockmaker; clocksmith (someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Norman Mattoon Thomas; Norman Thomas; Thomas

Instance hypernyms:

socialist (a political advocate of socialism)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A radio broadcast journalist during World War I and World War II noted for his nightly new broadcast (1892-1981)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lowell Jackson Thomas; Lowell Thomas; Thomas

Instance hypernyms:

broadcast journalist (a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Welsh poet (1914-1953)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dylan Marlais Thomas; Dylan Thomas; Thomas

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 5

Meaning:

The Apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he saw Jesus with his own eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

doubting Thomas; Saint Thomas; St. Thomas; Thomas; Thomas the doubting Apostle

Instance hypernyms:

Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)

saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)

 Context examples 

A niece of ours, Sir Thomas, I may say, or at least of yours, would not grow up in this neighbourhood without many advantages.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was developed by Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick in 1975 to determine patient's skin reaction to laser and light therapy treatments.

(Fitzpatrick Classification Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas’ library.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And they called him Thomas Thumb.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The twelve o’clock dinner was over, one day, and I had just finished putting the cabin in order, when Wolf Larsen and Thomas Mugridge descended the companion stairs.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You on the left, Howett, and Thomas of Redbridge upon the right.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Who told you that Mr. Ferrars was married, Thomas?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On the first occasion Mr. Thomas Traddles was left—let me say, in short, in the lurch.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Ever wonder why we forget many of our dreams?” said Thomas Kilduff, Ph.D., director of the Center for Neuroscience at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, and a senior author of the study.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)