WHITNEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Whitney mean? 

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

1. United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

2. the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high)

  Familiarity information: WHITNEY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITNEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Eli Whitney; Whitney

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

manufacturer; producer (someone who manufactures something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mount Whitney; Whitney

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

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

High Sierra; Sierra Nevada; Sierra Nevada Mountains (a mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney)

 Context examples 

“Thank you. I have not come to stay,” said I. “There is a friend of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Why,” said my wife, pulling up her veil, “it is Kate Whitney. How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when you came in.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was Isa Whitney’s medical adviser, and as such I had influence over him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney’s bill, led him out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. George’s, was much addicted to opium.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and unkempt, staring out at me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt, however, that when Whitney was once confined in the cab my mission was practically accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular adventures which were the normal condition of his existence.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)