Horatio

American  

[huh-rey-shee-oh, haw-, hoh-] / həˈreɪ ʃiˌoʊ, hɔ-, hoʊ- /

noun

1. a male given name.

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Example Sentences

He got to know Abel better through their shared involvement in the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gen. Horatio Gates, who deployed a nonmilitary tool of war: propaganda.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Wright points to Horatio Nelson’s superb navigation of space and time to show how the British admiral used his “impressive hippocampal-entorphinal brain region” to master positioning across a vast ocean and triumph over Napoleonic France.

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In the late 1800s, there were the Horatio Alger stories, extolling the idea that the new country was the land of opportunity, where people could go from poverty to wealth because of what they did for a living.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the early 20th century’s Gilded Age, the best-selling books weren’t the ones we consider classics, but Horatio Alger’s inspirational pulp.

From Salon