Locke

[ lok ]

noun

1. Al·ain Le·Roy [al, -in l, uh, -, roi, lee, -roi], 1886–1954, U.S. educator and author.
2. David Ross Petroleum V. Nasby, 1833–88, U.S. humorist and journalist.
3. John, 1632–1704, English philosopher.

Locke

/ lɒk /

noun

1. LockeJohn16321704MEnglishPHILOSOPHY: philosopher John. 1632–1704, English philosopher, who discussed the concept of empiricism in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690). He influenced political thought, esp in France and America, with his Two Treatises on Government (1690), in which he sanctioned the right to revolt
2. LockeMatthew?16301677MEnglishMUSIC: composer Matthew. ?1630–77, English composer, esp of works for the stage

Example Sentences

By 2002, he was sitting alongside Pope on the board of the John Locke Foundation.

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Chu left the administration in 2013, Locke went on to become Ambassador to China, and then resigned this year.

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Locke mentioned it in his Second Treatise on Government; Milton dreamed of it in Paradise Lost.

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He replaces former Washington governor and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke who stepped down earlier this year.

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In his Second Treatise of Government, Locke helped lay the conceptual groundwork for the American rebellion.

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She possessed also a great and philosophic mind, and wrote an able defence of Locke.

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He wore thin sireduelt in a smooky roofe, must take tobacco and must weare a locke.'

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We must here repeat what Locke has so strongly urged—Define your terms.

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John Locke, an American physician and naturalist, died at Cincinnati, aged 64.

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This is kindred to the saying of Locke, that "men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing."

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