NORRIS

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

1. United States writer (1870-1902)

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

• NORRIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer (1870-1902)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.; Frank Norris; Norris

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

Sir Thomas heard with some surprise that it would be totally out of Mrs. Norris's power to take any share in the personal charge of her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Hart and Norris proposed that a mucinous tumor should be classified as borderline when stromal invasion is uncertain and the atypical lining epithelium is less than four cells in thickness.

(Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The mission of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center is to understand the causes of cancer, to translate new knowledge into better prevention and treatment, and to provide effective and compassionate clinical care that improves the lives of cancer patients and families.

(Norris Cotton Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Mrs. Norris was sorry to say that the little girl's staying with them, at least as things then were, was quite out of the question.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I thoroughly understand you, cried Mrs. Norris, you are everything that is generous and considerate, and I am sure we shall never disagree on this point.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It will be readily believed that Mrs. Norris did not write to her sister in vain.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That is exactly what I think, cried Mrs. Norris, and what I was saying to my husband this morning.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I hope she will prove a well-disposed girl,” continued Mrs. Norris, “and be sensible of her uncommon good fortune in having such friends.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“This is not a very promising beginning,” said Mrs. Norris, when Fanny had left the room.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It required a longer time, however, than Mrs. Norris was inclined to allow, to reconcile Fanny to the novelty of Mansfield Park, and the separation from everybody she had been used to.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)