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[ em-er-suhn ] / ˈɛm ər sən /
nounRalph Wal·do, [wawl-doh, wol-], /ˈwɔl doʊ, ˈwɒl-/, 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet. OTHER WORDS FROM EmersonEm·er·so·ni·an [em-er-soh-nee-uhn], /ˌɛm ərˈsoʊ ni ən/, adjectivepro-Em·er·so·ni·an, adjective, nounWords nearby Emersonemerita, emeritus, emerize, emersed, emersion, Emerson, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, emery, emery board, emery cloth, emery wheel Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for EmersonMcDonald channeled us into Holiday's last year of life, in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. Billie Holiday, Barack Obama, and the Pain of Black Women|Joshua DuBois|June 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST Audra McDonald's amazing performance as Billie Holliday in 'Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill' must win her a Tony. Audra for the Win: Why Audra McDonald Must Win Tony for Best Actress|Daniel Gross|June 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell. The Incredibly Stupid War on the Common Core|Charles Upton Sahm|April 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST He has not, like a modern Emerson, surrendered himself to nature, but he has, at last, found his instincts worth trusting. Saul Bellow’s Masterpiece ‘Herzog’ Turns 50 In Great Form|Nicolaus Mills|April 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I still am in the stream of thought that started in this country with Emerson and Thoreau and Whitman. Interview: T Bone Burnett, the Coen Brothers’ Music Guru|Andrew Romano|December 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST Emerson is the last man we should expect to be guilty of misinterpreting Nature, yet he does so at times. The Last Harvest|John Burroughs As Emerson said of Napoleon, they would shorten a straight line to get at a point. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z|Various Emerson looked at life in order to penetrate it; Hawthorne, in order to comprehend it, and assimilate it to his own nature. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne|Frank Preston Stearns Was not Emerson, so far as purity of life is concerned, the equal of any true believer? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12)|Robert G. Ingersoll To her delight she saw that the driver was Grandfather Emerson. Ethel Morton at Rose House|Mabell S. C. Smith
British Dictionary definitions for Emerson
nounRalph Waldo. (rælf ˈwɔːldəʊ). 1803–82, US poet, essayist, and transcendentalist Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |