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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:
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)
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)
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