Otis

American  

[oh-tis] / ˈoʊ tɪs /

noun

1. Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.

2. Harrison Gray, 1837–1917, U.S. army officer and newspaper publisher.

3. James, 1725–83, American lawyer and public official who is supposed to have first used the phrase “Taxation without representation” (brother of Mercy Otis Warren).

4. a male given name.

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Example Sentences

Amaral studies complex social systems and serves as the Erastus Otis Haven Professor and professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering.

From Science Daily

Jenkins’ death was confirmed by his alma mater Otis College, where he studied under renowned painter and printmaker Charles White in the late 1970s and returned as an instructor years later.

From Los Angeles Times

He and his wife Hayley, who met while studying at Manchester University, had a one-year-old son, Otis, at the time of production and were trying for another child through IVF.

From BBC

Cloverfields, which he still owns, has said in filings that it invests in publicly held companies such as elevator-maker Otis Worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even Sheriff Taylor had the occasion to welcome someone worse than Otis the town drunk into the Mayberry jail.

From Los Angeles Times