WATTS

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

1. English poet and theologian (1674-1748)

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

• WATTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English poet and theologian (1674-1748)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Isaac Watts; Watts

Instance hypernyms:

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

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)

 Context examples 

“Egad, Doctor,” returned Mr. Wickfield, “if Doctor Watts knew mankind, he might have written, with as much truth, “Satan finds some mischief still, for busy hands to do.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What does Doctor Watts say, he added, looking at me, and moving his head to the time of his quotation, Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)