Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Robinson   /rˈɑbənsən/   Listen
Robinson

noun
1.
English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975).  Synonyms: Robert Robinson, Sir Robert Robinson.
2.
United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989).  Synonyms: Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Walker Smith.
3.
Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958).  Synonyms: Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson, Lennox Robinson.
4.
United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936).  Synonym: James Harvey Robinson.
5.
United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972).  Synonyms: Jack Roosevelt Robinson, Jackie Robinson.
6.
United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935).  Synonym: Edwin Arlington Robinson.
7.
United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973).  Synonyms: Edward G. Robinson, Edward Goldenberg Robinson.



Related searches:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Robinson" Quotes from Famous Books



... settlement needs no repetition here. The years in Holland had knit the little band together more strongly and lastingly than proved to be the case with any future company, their minister, John Robinson, having infused his own intense and self-abnegating nature into every one. That the Virginian colonies had suffered incredibly they knew, but it had no power to dissuade them. "We are well weaned," John Robinson wrote, "from the delicate milk of ...
— Anne Bradstreet and Her Time • Helen Campbell

... Charles Robinson and Charles L. Chapin, were also travelling around Europe at this time for the purpose of introducing Morse's invention, but, while all these efforts resulted in the ultimate adoption by all the nations of Europe, and then ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse

... themselves are not always scrupulous to follow nee with only the family name of the lady. No less a scholar than Gaston Paris dedicated his Poetes et Penseurs to 'Madame James Darmesteter, nee Mary Robinson'. Perhaps this is an instance of the modification of the strict meaning of a word by convention because of its enlarged ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 5 - The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems • Society for Pure English

... here. We shan't be long. There's a young American gentleman, a Mr Malone, who is driving Mr Robinson down in his new ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw

... upon the physical sciences which are to be taught in connection with things themselves,—out of doors, by travel, and in actual life; but he allows no history, or grammar, or ancient languages. No books are permitted save "Robinson Crusoe," which Rousseau finds entirely suitable for Emile. A trade is to be learned ...
— History of Education • Levi Seeley


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com