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JONATHAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("Jonathan" is a kind of...):
dessert apple; eating apple (an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking)
Context examples:
I should be quite happy if I only knew if Jonathan....
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Somehow I felt glad that Jonathan was not on the sea last night, but on land.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
If I only knew where to write to or where to go to, I should feel easier; but no one has heard a word of Jonathan since that last letter.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me! I wish he were here.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I hope there cannot be anything the matter with Jonathan.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I may show it to Jonathan some day if there is in it anything worth sharing, but it is really an exercise book.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Joy, joy, joy! although not all joy. At last, news of Jonathan. The dear fellow has been ill; that is why he did not write.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It is of Jonathan, and must be next my heart, for he is in my heart.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
No news from Jonathan, and Lucy seems to be growing weaker, whilst her mother's hours are numbering to a close.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I wonder if we—I mean Jonathan and I—shall ever see them together.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
