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ADAMS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high)

Synonyms:

Adams; Mount Adams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Holonyms ("Adams" is a part of...):

Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)

Cascade Mountains; Cascade Range; Cascades (a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range)

Sense 2

Meaning:

2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)

Synonyms:

Adams; John Adams; President Adams; President John Adams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 3

Meaning:

6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)

Synonyms:

Adams; John Quincy Adams; President Adams; President John Quincy Adams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 4

Meaning:

American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)

Synonyms:

Adams; Sam Adams; Samuel Adams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Some more company coming in, among whom were the two masters and Adams, the talk became general; and it naturally turned on Mr. Jack Maldon, and his voyage, and the country he was going to, and his various plans and prospects.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)