Powell

[ pou-uhl; for 2, 3 also poh-uhl ]

noun
  1. Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.

  2. Anthony, 1905–2000, English author.

  1. Cecil Frank, 1903–69, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1950.

  2. Co·lin [koh-lin, kol-in], /ˈkoʊ lɪn, ˈkɒl ɪn/, 1937–2021, U.S. general: chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1989–96; secretary of state 2001–05.

  3. Earl Bud, 1924–66, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.

  4. John Wesley, 1834–1902, U.S. geologist and ethnologist.

  5. Lewis Franklin, Jr., 1907–1998, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–87.

  6. Lake Powell, an artificial reservoir on the border of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona, on the Colorado River, formed by the construction of a dam (Glen Canyon Dam ) (completed 1964). 186 miles (300 km) long.

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How to use Powell in a sentence

  • This reinforcement, so much sooner than expected, greatly elated Major Powell.

  • He saw that Major Powell had succeeded in rallying some of his men, and taken a position that could not be carried without loss.

  • They rode nearly four miles before they came on to Major Powell and the remnant of his force.

  • When he told of the capture of the train and the defeat of Powell, Frost became very much excited.

  • John Powell of Richmond is considered Virginia's greatest single contributor to the musical composition field.

British Dictionary definitions for Powell

Powell

/ (ˈpaʊəl) /


noun
  1. (ˈpəʊəl) Anthony (Dymoke ˈdɪmək). 1905–2000, British novelist, best known for his sequence of novels under the general title A Dance to the Music of Time (1951–75)

  2. Cecil Frank. 1903–69, British physicist, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1950 for his discovery of the pi-meson

  1. Colin (Luther) (ˈcəʊlɪn). born 1937, US politician and general; Republican secretary of state (2001–05)

  2. Earl, known as Bud Powell. 1924–1966, US modern-jazz pianist

  3. (John) Enoch. 1912–98, British politician. An outspoken opponent of Commonwealth immigration into Britain and of British membership of the Common Market (now the European Union), in 1974 he resigned from the Conservative Party, returning to Parliament as a United Ulster Unionist Council member (1974–87)

  4. Michael. 1905–90, British film writer, producer, and director, best known for his collaboration (1942–57) with Emeric Pressburger. Films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), and Peeping Tom (1960)

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