Whitman

American  

[hwit-muhn, wit-] / ˈʰwɪt mən, ˈwɪt- /

noun

1. Marcus, 1802–47, U.S. missionary and pioneer.

2. Walt(er), 1819–92, U.S. poet.

3. a city in SE Massachusetts.

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Whitman British  

/ ˈwɪtmən /

noun

1. Walt ( er ). 1819–92, US poet, whose life's work is collected in Leaves of Grass (1855 and subsequent enlarged editions). His poems celebrate existence and the multiple elements that make up a democratic society

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Example Sentences

Past Republican candidates, including businessman John Cox in 2018 and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman in 2010, have self-financed their campaigns with their vast fortunes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

There’s documented marginalia and scribblings that suggest a serious reader, and anecdotes about her reciting poems at parties, reading Proust on set, and expounding on Whitman, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

EBay emerged from the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s largely unscathed, prompting then-CEO Meg Whitman to remark that “eBay is to some extent recession-proof.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Susan B. Anthony, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman were among those who professed their belief in the revelatory power of skulls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

I went to bed with the Whitman, flipping to the part I’d liked before, where he spends all the time hearing the opera and the people.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green