Hopkins

American  

[hop-kinz] / ˈhɒp kɪnz /

noun

1. Anthony, born 1937, English actor, born in Wales.

2. Sir Frederick Gowland 1861–1947, English physician and biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929.

3. Gerard Manley 1844–89, English poet.

4. Harry Lloyd, 1890–1946, U.S. government administrator and social worker.

5. Johns, 1795–1873, U.S. financier and philanthropist.

6. Mark, 1802–87, U.S. clergyman and educator.

7. a city in SE Minnesota.

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Hopkins British  

/ ˈhɒpkɪnz /

noun

1. Sir Anthony. born 1937, Welsh actor: his films include Bounty (1984), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Shadowlands (1994), Nixon (1995), and Hannibal (2001)

2. Sir Frederick Gowland (ˈɡaʊlənd). 1861–1947, British biochemist, who pioneered research into what came to be called vitamins: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1929)

3. Gerard Manley. 1844–89, British poet and Jesuit priest, who experimented with sprung rhythm in his highly original poetry

4. Harry L ( loyd ). 1890–1946, US administrator. During World War II he was a personal aide to President Roosevelt and administered the lend-lease programme

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Example Sentences

Joshua Hopkins, 26, from Glasgow, started a business and marketing degree in Belgium but then switched to an apprenticeship.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Dane Cunningham hit a two-run home run, Maxx Hopkins homered and Jared Grindlinger had a triple, single and two RBIs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Webster, the Johns Hopkins researcher, said numbers leave little doubt as to the shift away from general anti-trafficking enforcement.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Johns Hopkins graduate student Adam Davidovich helped develop new laboratory and computational approaches that allowed genomic and methylation data to be studied simultaneously.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

She went back to Hopkins, where a doctor passed a catheter to empty her bladder, then sent her home.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot