Merton

[ mur-tn ]

noun

1. Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.
2. Thomas, 1915–68, U.S. poet and religious writer, born in France.
3. a borough of Greater London, England.

Merton

¹

/ ˈmɜːtən /

noun

1. MertonThomas (Feverel)19151968MUSWRITING: writerRELIGION: monkRELIGION: mystic Thomas ( Feverel ). 1915–68, US writer, monk, and mystic; noted esp for his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)

Merton

²

/ ˈmɜːtən /

noun

1. a borough in SW Greater London. Pop: 191 400 (2003 est). Area: 38 sq km (15 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Myron Scholes and Robert Merton won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1997, by which time Black had died.

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“She was the closest thing I felt like I had to a daughter,” Merton told The Daily Beast on Sunday.

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That Brayden will not get to grow up with his big sister is perhaps what hurts the Engels the most, Merton said.

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Merton said that on Friday, Olivia had been excited to get home from school and make a gingerbread house.

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Reader of Thomas Merton and that bunch (and indeed Niebuhr--look at how Obama apparently immersed himself in Niebuhr).

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Old Merton embraced the commission, for he happened to need Meadows's advice and assistance.

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I am here to tell, not the great tale of gold, but the little story of how Susan Merton was affected thereby.

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The female servants were called to assist her, and old Merton and Meadows left her in their hands, feeble, but calm and thankful.

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Old Merton saw now how the land lay, and he clung to a marriage between these two as his only hope.

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And don't you see that, when the writ is served on old Merton, he will be as strong as fire for me and against him.

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