MILTON

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

1. English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

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

• MILTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Milton; Milton

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

This thievish leg is to hang at Milton, and the other is already at Brockenhurst, as a sign to all men of what comes of being over-fond of venison pasty.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo regarded them as worthy of Bacon, Milton, or Shakespeare, and remodeled her own works with good effect, she thought.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was inevitable that Milton’s Lucifer should be instanced, and the keenness with which Wolf Larsen analysed and depicted the character was a revelation of his stifled genius.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My dear mother, the best that ever a man had, was the second daughter of the Reverend John Tregellis, Vicar of Milton, which is a small parish upon the borders of the marshes of Langstone.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“Why, my lord,” quoth Ford, standing in his stirrups and shading his eyes, “it is old Hob Davidson, the fat miller of Milton!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is one he values much, and I've often admired it, set up in the place of honor with his German Bible, Plato, Homer, and Milton, so you may imagine how I felt when he brought it down, without its cover, and showed me my own name in it, from my friend Friedrich Bhaer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And from Milton!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have heard him on the cog with a voice like the wave upon the shore. I pray you, friend, to give us 'The Bells of Milton,' or, if you will, 'The Franklin's Maid.'”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)