THORNTON

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

1. American architect (1759-1828)

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

• THORNTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American architect (1759-1828)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Thornton; William Thornton

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

I want you at home, that I may have your opinion about Thornton Lacey.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mercedes dried her eyes and looked at John Thornton.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Mansfield, Sotherton, Thornton Lacey, he continued; what a society will be comprised in those houses!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Several times Thornton started, as though to speak, but changed his mind.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I found myself, in short, in Thornton Lacey.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Get up there, Buck! Hi! Get up there! Mush on!” Thornton went on whittling.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There may be some old woman at Thornton Lacey to be converted.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“And they told you true,” John Thornton answered.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And I have two or three ideas also, said Edmund, and one of them is, that very little of your plan for Thornton Lacey will ever be put in practice.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Thornton stood between him and Buck, and evinced no intention of getting out of the way.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)