DUNCAN

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

1. United States dancer and pioneer of modern dance (1878-1927)

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

• DUNCAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States dancer and pioneer of modern dance (1878-1927)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Duncan; Isadora Duncan

Instance hypernyms:

dancer; professional dancer; terpsichorean (a performer who dances professionally)

 Context examples 

Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan Ross was.

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

The Dan L Duncan Cancer Center focuses on cancer research, patient care, training, and education.

(Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at all.

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

The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross was there to see that I got fairly to work.

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

Apply in person on Monday, at eleven o’clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 Pope’s Court, Fleet Street.

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

‘My name,’ said he, ‘is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor.’

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

‘No excuse will avail,’ said Mr. Duncan Ross; ‘neither sickness nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose your billet.’

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

I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross.

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