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Bartlett

1

[ bahrt-lit ]

noun

, Horticulture.
  1. a large, yellow, juicy variety of pear.


Bartlett

2

[ bahrt-lit ]

noun

  1. John, 1820–1905, U.S. publisher: compiled Familiar Quotations.
  2. John Russell, 1805–86, U.S. editor and bibliographer of early Americana.
  3. Josiah, 1729–95, U.S. physician and statesman.
  4. Paul Wayland, 1865–1925, U.S. sculptor.
  5. Robert Abram, 1875–1946, U.S. Arctic explorer, born in Newfoundland.
  6. Vernon, 1894–1983, English writer.
  7. a town in southwestern Tennessee.
  8. a town in northeastern Illinois.
  9. a male given name, form of Bartholomew.

Bartlett

/ ˈbɑːtlɪt /

noun

  1. the Williams pear, used esp in the US and generally of tinned pears


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Bartlett1

1825–35, Americanism; so named by Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester, Mass.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Bartlett1

named after Enoch Bartlett (1779–1860), of Dorchester, Mass., who marketed it in the US

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Example Sentences

Bartlett and his colleagues used the glove to pick up various objects underwater.

Bartlett and colleagues used the glove to pick up objects underwater, including a toy car, plastic spoon and metal bowl.

Similar guidelines should be applied to birthday celebrations, Bartlett said.

Bartlett said she is also planning to send her children to camp this summer.

In 2019, four women accused Brough of making unwanted and aggressive advances – and one of those women was Bartlett.

Jackson was an exceptional math and science student; the dreaded Bartlett was one of his favorite professors.

OK, for good measure I asked a non-liberal, the policy expert Bruce Bartlett.

So (co-stars) Frankie J. Alvarez, Murray Bartlett, and I got to hang out and explore the city before we shot there.

Barro, a young Bloomberg View columnist, is (it seems to me) more than halfway down the Frum-Bartlett path.

Josh Barro is sometimes included, as are David Frum and Bruce Bartlett.

His son, Steven James Bartlett, has published fifteen books and many papers in philosophy and psychology.

Madam Bartlett should have been born in the seventeenth century.

That first meal with the Misses Bartlett was an ordeal he never forgot.

She held it up, kept it together, maintained the proud old Bartlett tradition.

But it remained for Madam Bartlett to render him the service of which he was most in need.

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