UNCLE SAM

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• UNCLE SAM (noun)
  The noun UNCLE SAM has 1 sense:

1. a personification of the United States government

  Familiarity information: UNCLE SAM used as a noun is very rare.

• UNCLE SAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A personification of the United States government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

He was a tall, gaunt man of sixty, with clear-cut features and a small goatee beard which gave him a general resemblance to the caricatures of Uncle Sam. A half-smoked, sodden cigar hung from the corner of his mouth, and as he sat down he struck a match and relit it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)