STEVENSON

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

1. Scottish author (1850-1894)

2. United States politician and diplomat (1900-1968)

  Familiarity information: STEVENSON used as a noun is rare.

• STEVENSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish author (1850-1894)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson; Robert Louis Stevenson; Stevenson

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States politician and diplomat (1900-1968)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Adlai Ewing Stevenson; Adlai Stevenson; Stevenson

Instance hypernyms:

diplomat; diplomatist (an official engaged in international negotiations)

 Context examples 

Mutations in the gene are associated with Crouzon syndrome, Pfeiffer syndrome, Craniosynostosis, Apert syndrome, Jackson-Weiss syndrome, Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome, Saethre-Chotzen syndrome, and syndromic craniosynostosis.

(FGFR2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

"Why, I was appalled at the quantities of rubbish written about Stevenson and his work."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Stevenson is fast enough, but he couldn’t drop from the twenty-five line, and a three-quarter who can’t either punt or drop isn’t worth a place for pace alone.

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

“My name,” answered our visitor, “is probably familiar to your ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street.”

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

This was the page at which the favourite volume always opened: Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still-born son, November 5, 1789; Mary, born November 20, 1791.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

What in hell's success if it isn't right there in your Stevenson sonnet, which outranks Henley's 'Apparition,' in that 'Love-cycle,' in those sea- poems?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For a sonnet on Stevenson he managed to wring two dollars out of a Boston editor who was running a magazine with a Matthew Arnold taste and a penny- dreadful purse.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)