SIMPSON

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• SIMPSON (noun)
  The noun SIMPSON has 2 senses:

1. United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication

2. Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)

  Familiarity information: SIMPSON used as a noun is rare.

• SIMPSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Duchess of Windsor; Mrs. Simpson; Simpson; Wallis Warfield Simpson; Wallis Warfield Windsor

Instance hypernyms:

divorcee; grass widow (a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Simpson; Sir James Young Simpson

Instance hypernyms:

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

 Context examples 

“Ah, here is Simpson to report.”

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

GH: Develops hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and vascular disease (Phelan 1968, Simpson and Phelan 1984, Simpson et al, 1994).

(GH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

The late George Gaylord Simpson, a geoscientist at UA and an influential evolutionary thinker of the last century, proposed that these fluctuating dependencies should determine the speed of evolution.

(Colorful bird feathers offer evolutionary clues, National Science Foundation)

When we have finished at the police-station I think that something nutritious at Simpson’s would not be out of place.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now there's Mr. Rose at Exeter, a prodigious smart young man, quite a beau, clerk to Mr. Simpson, you know, and yet if you do but meet him of a morning, he is not fit to be seen.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If so, it would tell against this man Simpson.

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

And nothing to connect this man Simpson with the interests of the Mapleton stables?

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

“Good, Simpson!” said Holmes, patting him on the head.

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

When, however, another morning had come, and I found that beyond the arrest of young Fitzroy Simpson nothing had been done, I felt that it was time for me to take action.

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

His name, it appears, was Fitzroy Simpson.

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