CLARK

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• CLARK (noun)
  The noun CLARK has 4 senses:

1. United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)

2. United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984)

3. United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-2005)

4. Canadian politician who served as prime minister (1939-)

  Familiarity information: CLARK used as a noun is uncommon.

• CLARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Clark; William Clark

Instance hypernyms:

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Clark; Mark Clark; Mark Wayne Clark

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-2005)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Clark; Kenneth Bancroft Clark; Kenneth Clark

Instance hypernyms:

psychologist (a scientist trained in psychology)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Canadian politician who served as prime minister (1939-)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Charles Joseph Clark; Clark; Joe Clark

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell’s fine sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves.

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

Amongst the books to which I am indebted for my material in my endeavour to draw various phases of life and character in England at the beginning of the century, I would particularly mention Ashton’s Dawn of the Nineteenth Century; Gronow’s “Reminiscences;” Fitzgerald’s “Life and Times of George IV.;” Jesse’s “Life of Brummell;” “Boxiana;” “Pugilistica;” Harper’s “Brighton Road;” Robinson’s “Last Earl of Barrymore” and “Old Q.;” Rice’s “History of the Turf;” Tristram’s “Coaching Days;” James’s “Naval History;” Clark Russell’s “Collingwood” and “Nelson.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here were the gold mullets of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackworths, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the cinque-foils of the Cliftons, the annulets of the Musgraves, the silver pinions of the Beauchamps, the crosses of the Molineaux, the bloody chevron of the Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the Clarks, the boars'-heads of the Lucies, the crescents of the Boyntons, and the wolf and dagger of the Lipscombs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)