WEBSTER

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

1. English playwright (1580-1625)

2. United States politician and orator (1782-1817)

3. United States lexicographer (1758-1843)

  Familiarity information: WEBSTER used as a noun is uncommon.

• WEBSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English playwright (1580-1625)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Webster; Webster

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States politician and orator (1782-1817)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Daniel Webster; Webster

Instance hypernyms:

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States lexicographer (1758-1843)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Noah Webster; Webster

Instance hypernyms:

lexicographer; lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)

 Context examples 

An inbred mouse strain developed by JT Webster in 1932.

(LT Webster 1932, NCI Thesaurus)

There is not only the herd, but the shearer and brander, and then the dresser, the curer, the dyer, the fuller, the webster, the merchant, and a score of others.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That's going to be a very interesting question in the future, said first author Melinda Webster, an oceanography graduate student at the University of Washington.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)