Locke

American  

[lok] / lɒk /

noun

1. Alain LeRoy 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.

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Locke British  

/ lɒk /

noun

1. 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. Matthew. ?1630–77, English composer, esp of works for the stage

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Example Sentences

On a wooden fence, Good’s portrait accompanied those of Floyd and other Black men killed by police in Minnesota in recent years, among them Daunte Wright, Winston Boogie Smith Jr. and Amir Locke.

From Los Angeles Times

Locke pays $1,200 a month for all-day infant care and after-school care at a child-care center for her two children.

From Los Angeles Times

The girls, then 13, had a meeting with Anthony Locke, head of school at Crossroads, and made a pitch deck.

From Los Angeles Times

Beginning with an origin story that echoed John Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government,” Paine depicted people originally created free and equal in nature and subsequently forming representative governments to better secure their liberty and happiness.

From Salon

Mitch Kokai, a senior political analyst at the conservative John Locke Foundation, argued the panel’s finding was consistent with North Carolina’s history of splitting executive power among multiple executive branch officials.

From Salon