Lowell

[loh-uh l]

noun

Ab·bott Lawrence

[ab-uh t] /ˈæb ət/, 1856–1943, political scientist and educator: president of Harvard University 1909–33.

his sisterAmy,1874–1925, U.S. poet and critic.

James Russell,1819–91, U.S. poet, essayist, and diplomat.

Percival,1855–1916, U.S. astronomer and author (brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell).

Robert,1917–77, U.S. poet.

a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.

a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “little wolf.”

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Examples from the Web for lowell

Contemporary Examples of lowell

He could recite reams of Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, and Lowell, and he did so while I stood there, amazed.
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Jay Parini
May 11, 2014
Lowell worried that he had whittled away his talent in the pursuit of “some ironic integrity.”
A Plot Against Living: J.F. Powers’s ‘Suitable Accommodations’
D. G. Myers
August 20, 2013
Lowell wrote to Oliver Wendell Holmes, “he should need no more introduction than a fine day.”
Wilde Ride
Anthony Paletta
January 3, 2013
Reading Bishop and Lowell, a different recrimination pops up: will I ever have a friendship that comes close to this?
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R. Blakeslee Gilpin
December 18, 2012
As in many mill towns in New England, the French-Canadians in Lowell stuck together in a tight-knit ethnic enclave.
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Lauren Du Graf
September 16, 2012

Historical Examples of lowell

If mother will let me, I can go to Lowell and work in a factory.
Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848
Various
Lowell died in 1817, at the early age of forty-two, but his work did not die with him.
The Age of Invention
Holland Thompson
Lowell as a textile center has long been surpassed by other cities.
The Age of Invention
Holland Thompson
This was effected by Lowell Mason, as an experiment, in 1838.
Annals of Music in America
Henry Charles Lahee
How little either of us realized that Lowell was marching to his death.
Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman
J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd

British Dictionary definitions for lowell

Lowell

noun

Amy (Lawrence). 1874–1925, US imagist poet and critic

James Russell. 1819–91, US poet, essayist, and diplomat, noted for his series of poems in Yankee dialect, Biglow Papers (1848; 1867)

Robert (Traill Spence). 1917–77, US poet. His volumes of verse include Lord Weary's Castle (1946), Life Studies (1959), For the Union Dead (1964), and a book of free translations of European poems, Imitations (1961)

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