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PERCY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)

Synonyms:

Harry Hotspur; Hotspur; Percy; Sir Henry Percy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States writer whose novels explored human alienation (1916-1990)

Synonyms:

Percy; Walker Percy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Credits

 Context examples: 

“My name is Doctor Percy Trevelyan,” said our visitor, “and I live at 403, Brook Street.”

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

Then, of the younger men, Sir Thomas Percy of Northumberland, Sir Thomas Wake of Yorkshire, and Sir William Beauchamp of Gloucestershire, were finally selected to uphold the honor of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘You are the same Percy Trevelyan who has had so distinguished a career and won a great prize lately?’ said he.

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

Percy Phelps was walking very slowly, leaning upon the arm of his future brother-in-law.

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

Percy Phelps and his nurse looked at Holmes during this demonstration with surprise and a good deal of disappointment written upon their faces.

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

‘A Russian nobleman who is now resident in England,’ it runs, ‘would be glad to avail himself of the professional assistance of Dr. Percy Trevelyan.’

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

During my school-days I had been intimately associated with a lad named Percy Phelps, who was of much the same age as myself, though he was two classes ahead of me.

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

Percy has been inquiring for you all morning.

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

Joseph Harrison is my name, and as Percy is to marry my sister Annie I shall at least be a relation by marriage.

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

Your old schoolfellow, Percy Phelps.

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