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LINCOLN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long-wooled mutton sheep originally from Lincolnshire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Lincoln" is a kind of...):

domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska

Synonyms:

capital of Nebraska; Lincoln

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Lincoln"):

University of Nebraska (a university in Lincoln, Nebraska)

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

Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska (a midwestern state on the Great Plains)

Sense 3

Meaning:

16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

Synonyms:

Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln; President Abraham Lincoln; President Lincoln

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

attorney; lawyer (a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice)

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)

Derivation:

Lincolnian (of or relating to or in the manner of Abraham Lincoln)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I fear, mon gar., that they have taught thee but badly at Beaulieu, for surely a bishop knows more of what is right and what is ill than an abbot can do, and I myself with these very eyes saw the Bishop of Lincoln hew into a Scottish hobeler with a battle-axe, which was a passing strange way of showing him that he loved him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When we came to our journey's end, he went home, engaging to call upon me next day but one; and I drove to Lincoln's Inn Fields, where I found my aunt up, and waiting supper.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)