DuPont

Or Du Pont

[doo-pont, dyoo-, doo-pont, dyoo-, dy-pawn]

noun

1. Eleuthère Irénée 1771–1834, U.S. industrialist, born in France.

2. Pierre Samuel 1739–1817, French economist and statesman (father of Eleuthère Irénée).

3. Samuel Francis, 1803–65, Union admiral in the U.S. Civil War.

Example Sentences

Marchers congregated in Dupont Circle, a central hub in the city, and marched through the streets chanting "Free DC!"

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In Dupont Circle, where others were handcuffed, I witnessed a woman with a thong leotard poking out of her cargo skirt reading loudly from some kind of political tract.

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"Everybody assumes that they're going to sign Antoine Dupont or whoever because they can afford to go hard," he says.

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It's said that there is only one Antoine Dupont, but that's not really true.

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With captain Antoine Dupont out injured, Bielle-Biarrey is now French rugby's pin-up prince - a role he is still acclimatising to.

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