BEECHER

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

1. United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)

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

• BEECHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Beecher; Henry Ward Beecher

Instance hypernyms:

abolitionist; emancipationist (a reformer who favors abolishing slavery)

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

 Context examples 

You felt so strongly about it that I knew you could not think of Beecher without thinking of that also.

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

You were recalling the incidents of Beecher’s career.

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

But now your thoughts went back to Beecher, and you looked hard across as if you were studying the character in his features.

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

Your eyes flashed across to the unframed portrait of Henry Ward Beecher which stands upon the top of your books.

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