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CARTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone whose work is driving carts
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carter" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Derivation:
cart (transport something in a cart)
Sense 2
Meaning:
39th President of the United States (1924-)
Synonyms:
Carter; James Earl Carter; James Earl Carter Jr.; Jimmy Carter; President Carter
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:
Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939)
Synonyms:
Carter; Howard Carter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Egyptologist (an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology)
Context examples:
I shall try to see the carter who took away the boxes from Carfax when Renfield attacked them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mason, supported by Mr. Rochester and the surgeon, seemed to walk with tolerable ease: they assisted him into the chaise; Carter followed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mamma, cried Lydia, my aunt says that Colonel Forster and Captain Carter do not go so often to Miss Watson's as they did when they first came; she sees them now very often standing in Clarke's library.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Unlucky wretch that I am!” cried the carter; for he saw that the corn was almost all gone.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I can do that conscientiously, said Carter, who had now undone the bandages; only I wish I could have got here sooner: he would not have bled so much—but how is this?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Catherine was disconcerted, and made no answer; but Lydia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
What an odd thing that is! said one: there is a cart going along, and I hear a carter talking to the horse, but yet I can see no one.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Carter, assure him there's no danger.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But the sparrow began to flutter about, and stretch out her neck and cried, “Carter! it shall cost thee thy life yet!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"Now, Carter, be on the alert," he said to this last: "I give you but half-an-hour for dressing the wound, fastening the bandages, getting the patient downstairs and all."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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