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Carson

[ kahr-suhn ]

noun

  1. Christopher Kit, 1809–68, U.S. frontiersman and scout.
  2. Sir Edward Henry Baron Carson, 1854–1935, Irish public official.
  3. Johnny, 1925–2005, U.S. television entertainer.
  4. Rachel Louise, 1907–1964, U.S. marine biologist and author.
  5. a city in SW California.
  6. a river in N California and NW Nevada, flowing NE to the Carson Sink. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  7. a male or female given name.


Carson

/ ˈkɑːsən /

noun

  1. CarsonChristopher18091868MUSTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: frontiersmanMISC: trapperMISC: scoutMISC: Indian agent Christopher, known as Kit Carson. 1809–68, US frontiersman, trapper, scout, and Indian agent
  2. CarsonEdward Henry18541935MIrishPOLITICS: politicianLAW: lawyer Edward Henry, Baron. 1854–1935, Anglo-Irish politician and lawyer; led northern Irish resistance to the British government's plan for home rule for Ireland
  3. CarsonRachel (Louise)19071964FUSSCIENCE: biologistWRITING: science writerWRITING: author Rachel ( Louise ). 1907–64, US marine biologist and science writer; author of Silent Spring (1962)
  4. CarsonWillie1942MScottishSPORT AND GAMES: jockey Willie, full name William Hunter Fisher Carson. born 1942, Scottish jockey: rode four winners in the Derby (1979, 1980, 1989, 1994)
“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


Carson

/ kärsən /

  1. American marine biologist and writer whose best-known book, Silent Spring (1962), was an influential study of the dangerous effects of synthetic pesticides on food chains. Public reaction to the book resulted in stricter controls on pesticide use and shaped the ideas of the modern environmental movement.


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Example Sentences

Cowan said that Carson told him there was nothing he could do.

Experts vouched for the positive impact this will have on Carson’s physical and emotional well-being.

Carson was around senior administration officials and other Cabinet members during the event.

Carson’s job that day was to set up one of eight wastewater monitoring sites across Campbell, Boone, and Kenton counties along Kentucky’s northern border.

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Carson began working in National School District’s finance office in 2005.

“I feel a shaking of the ground I stand on,” Carson tells Mrs. Hughes with trepidation.

And, not entirely coincidentally, he had to do the song on Johnny Carson.

She wrote for LIFE magazine and would go on Johnny Carson to promote her books.

The possibility that Ben Carson might run for president in 2016 first began to seem likely three years out, in February 2013.

But for the National Draft Ben Carson for President PAC to get going, they needed a Web domain.

If Carson is with Badger when we get there, we'll have ten men.

Her home is in Sacramento, but she has relatives in Carson City.

But she was shrewd, and she gave him the slip before Carson was reached.

Then he told me how he had seen me in Carson, and had mistaken me, at first, for some one else.

Carson was swelling with rage when he stepped onto the platform of the list.

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