Housman

American  

[hous-muhn] / ˈhaʊs mən /

noun

1. A(lfred) E(dward), 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar.

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Housman British  

/ ˈhaʊsmən /

noun

1. A ( lfred ) E ( dward ). 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar, author of A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922)

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Example Sentences

"The thick tension between old, hardened Captain Quint and young, sarcastic oceanographer Matt Hooper is due in part to the actors' real-life on-set rivalry," said Screen Rant's Andrew Housman.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2021

Housman and Rupert Brooke, the stirringly patriotic music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, the doomed Scott Antarctic expedition, the cult of Nature and, not least, Robert Baden-Powell’s creation of the Boy Scouts.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2021

Housman — this haven for the anti-establishment opened in King’s Cross in 1959.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019

Investigators said Housman died hours before she was found.

From Fox News • Jun. 5, 2019

At the bottom were Gray’s Anatomy and a collected Shakespeare, and above them, on slenderer spines, names in faded silver and gold—she saw Housman and Crabbe.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan