ROBERTSON

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

1. United States basketball guard (born in 1938)

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

• ROBERTSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States basketball guard (born in 1938)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Oscar Palmer Robertson; Oscar Robertson; Robertson

Instance hypernyms:

guard (the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team)

 Context examples 

He has been upon several scientific expeditions in his youth (he was with Robertson in Papua), and the life of the camp and the canoe is nothing fresh to him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Understanding how carbon is stored in soils is important for thinking about solutions for climate change, said Phil Robertson, a plant, soil and microbial scientist at Michigan State University and a co-author of the study.

(Scientists discover new mechanism for how soils store carbon, National Science Foundation)

If a speech be well drawn up, I read it with pleasure, by whomsoever it may be made—and probably with much greater, if the production of Mr. Hume or Mr. Robertson, than if the genuine words of Caractacus, Agricola, or Alfred the Great.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)