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OGDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ogden mean? 

OGDEN (noun)
  The noun OGDEN has 2 senses:

1. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957)play

2. a town in northern Utah settled by Mormonsplay

  Familiarity information: OGDEN used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OGDEN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

C. K. Ogden; Charles Kay Ogden; Ogden

Instance hypernyms:

psychologist (a scientist trained in psychology)

semanticist; semiotician (a specialist in the study of meaning)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in northern Utah settled by Mormons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah (a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young)


 Context examples 


"Of course I didn't. I was coming west from New York, and when the train stopped at Ogden, the train-boy on the new run brought aboard the current number of the Transcontinental."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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