PITT

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

1. a British playwright who created the fictional character Sweeney Todd (1799-1855)

2. English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806)

3. English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)

  Familiarity information: PITT used as a noun is uncommon.

• PITT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A British playwright who created the fictional character Sweeney Todd (1799-1855)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

George Dibdin-Pitt; George Dibdin Pitt; George Pitt; Pitt

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Pitt; Pitt the Younger; Second Earl of Chatham; William Pitt

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

First Earl of Chatham; Pitt; Pitt the Elder; William Pitt

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

That’s Pitt, going down to the House.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the way he passed the fishing village of Pitt's Deep, and marked that a little creyer or brig was tacking off the land, as though about to anchor there.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He read it aloud: Come instantly, 131, Pitt Street, Kensington.—LESTRADE.

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

Standing by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishing above his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning, would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver the most withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption of my aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, with my notebook on my knee, fagging after him with all my might and main.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Pitt has been at you, sir, I understand?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is a third cross-road where the track from Boldre runs down to the old fishing village of Pitt's Deep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In half an hour we had reached Pitt Street, a quiet little backwater just beside one of the briskest currents of London life.

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

I gathered from the smile which flitted over Sheridan’s expressive face that this was exactly what Pitt did do.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A bow-shot from Pitt's Deep there was an inn a little back from the road, very large and wide-spread, with a great green bush hung upon a pole from one of the upper windows.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are going back to Pitt Street, you might see Mr. Horace Harker.

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