Lynn

[ lin ]

noun

1. Janet Janet Lynn Nowicki, born 1953, U.S. figure skater.
2. a seaport in E Massachusetts, on Massachusetts Bay.
3. a male given name, form of Lincoln, Linton.
4. Also Lynne. a female given name, form of Caroline or Carolyn.

Lynn

¹

/ lɪn /

noun

1. LynnVera1917FBritishMUSIC: singer Dame Vera , original name Vera Margaret Lewis . born 1917, British singer popular during World War II and known as "the forces' sweetheart". Her best-known songs are "We'll Meet Again" and "White Cliffs of Dover"

Lynn

²

/ lɪn /

noun

1. See King's Lynn
   another name for King's Lynn Also calledLynn Regisˈriːdʒɪs

Example Sentences

Hypnotherapists should avoid using the technique to “recover” memories, Lynn says.

From Time

She moved across the ice rather slowly, especially when compared to Lynn, who seemed to zip back and forth.

From FiveThirtyEight

When Sam Bansfield first started working as a material handler at General Electric’s Lynn, Massachusetts plant in 2012, she remembers the noise—the loud clanking of her coworkers in the piece-making wing of the jet engine factory.

From Time

The end of Sunday’s 27-17 loss to the Buffalo Bills may have been Lynn’s most troubling moment yet.

From Washington Post

Lynn said he liked the idea because it allowed RepresentUS to showcase the threat from both domestic political developments and from this emerging new technology.

From Fortune

"That was crazy," Lynn Jenkins of Kansas muttered to another member as she walked to greet Boehner.

From The Daily Beast

The cover story was titled “Kim Kardashian: The Art of Reality,” and written by M.I.A. BFF Lynn Hirschberg.

From The Daily Beast

Republican senatorial candidate Terri Lynn Land is losing in Michigan.

From The Daily Beast

With Terri Lynn Land looking like a goner, Republicans are throwing a wild Hail Mary—using 2004 tactics to gain a Senate seat.

From The Daily Beast

Lynn Meekins, the managing editor, decided against wasting time and energy on extras.

From The Daily Beast

A broad, level road leads from Boston to King's Lynn, a place of considerable size.

From Project Gutenberg

Lynn saw that his remark was injudicious, and endeavoured to atone for it, by the most delicate assiduity of attention.

From Project Gutenberg

Led by the members for Lynn and Coventry the house showed unmistakeably that it was at length determined to submit no longer.

From Project Gutenberg

Still, it was a marvel that the impassioned Lynn should recognise in her the embodiment of his poetic dream of woman.

From Project Gutenberg

Nothing appeared less likely, at this period, than the fulfilment of Lynn's prognostications of his destiny.

From Project Gutenberg