HOWE

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• HOWE (noun)
  The noun HOWE has 4 senses:

1. United States editor (1920-1993)

2. Canadian hockey player who holds the record for playing the most games (born 1928)

3. United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910)

4. United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)

  Familiarity information: HOWE used as a noun is uncommon.

• HOWE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States editor (1920-1993)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Howe; Irving Howe

Instance hypernyms:

editor; editor in chief (a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Canadian hockey player who holds the record for playing the most games (born 1928)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gordie Howe; Gordon Howe; Howe

Instance hypernyms:

hockey player; ice-hockey player (an athlete who plays hockey)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Howe; Julia Ward Howe

Instance hypernyms:

suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Elias Howe; Howe

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

Standing as it does near the corner of the street, it commands a view down Howe Street, with its more pretentious houses.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we walked rapidly down Howe Street I glanced back at the building which we had left.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the doorway of the Howe Street flats a man, muffled in a cravat and greatcoat, was leaning against the railing.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)