CHURCHILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Churchill mean? 

• CHURCHILL (noun)
  The noun CHURCHILL has 3 senses:

1. English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722)

2. British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)

3. a Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain

  Familiarity information: CHURCHILL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHURCHILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Churchill; Duke of Marlborough; First Duke of Marlborough; John Churchill

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Churchill; Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill; Winston Churchill; Winston S. Churchill

Instance hypernyms:

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Derivation:

Churchillian (of or relating to or suggestive of Winston Churchill)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Manitoba (one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada)

 Context examples 

Emma was not at this time in a state of spirits to care really about Mr. Frank Churchill's not coming, except as a disappointment at Randalls.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Frank Churchill did not come.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Oh, Mrs. Churchill; every body knows Mrs. Churchill, replied Isabella: and I am sure I never think of that poor young man without the greatest compassion.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Yes—it seems to depend upon nothing but the ill-humour of Mrs. Churchill, which I imagine to be the most certain thing in the world.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

What has Mr. Frank Churchill done, to make you suppose him such an unnatural creature?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

If Frank Churchill had wanted to see his father, he would have contrived it between September and January.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She and Mr. Frank Churchill had been at Weymouth at the same time.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Frank Churchill to be making such a speech as that to the uncle and aunt, who have brought him up, and are to provide for him!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is Frank Churchill's duty to pay this attention to his father.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We ought to be acquainted with Enscombe, and with Mrs. Churchill's temper, before we pretend to decide upon what her nephew can do.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)