TYLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tyler mean? 

• TYLER (noun)
  The noun TYLER has 2 senses:

1. elected vice president and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862)

2. a town in northeast Texas

  Familiarity information: TYLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Elected vice president and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Tyler; President Tyler; Tyler

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in northeast Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Tyler" is a part of...):

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

 Context examples 

"There is a dynamic and complex relationship among land cover types that are constantly changing," said lead author J. Tyler Fox of the University of Arkansas.

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

The work was performed by a team of researchers led by Tyler Robinson, a NASA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

Hence the fierce mutterings of the lower classes and the constant discontent, breaking out into local tumult and outrage, and culminating some years later in the great rising of Tyler.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)