ARNOLD

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

1. English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

2. United States general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801)

  Familiarity information: ARNOLD used as a noun is rare.

• ARNOLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arnold; Matthew Arnold

Instance hypernyms:

literary critic (a critic of literature)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arnold; Benedict Arnold

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

traitor; treasonist (someone who betrays his country by committing treason)

 Context examples 

Here is Arnold of Sowley will troll as good a stave as any man in the Company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a sonnet on Stevenson he managed to wring two dollars out of a Boston editor who was running a magazine with a Matthew Arnold taste and a penny- dreadful purse.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Here, Watkin of Sowley, Arnold, Long Williams, let us show the rogues that they have English bowmen to deal with.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I be the milking wench o' fairmer Arnold, and he be as kind a maister as heart could wish.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, I myself have served two terms with Arnold de Cervolles, he whom they called the archpriest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)