Patton

American  

[pat-n] / ˈpæt n /

noun

1. Charley Charlie Patton, 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.

2. George Smith, 1885–1945, U.S. general.

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Patton British  

/ ˈpætən /

noun

1. George Smith. 1885–1945, US general, who successfully developed tank warfare as an extension of cavalry tactics in World War II: captured Palermo, Sicily (1942) and much of France (1944)

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Example Sentences

“Obviously, it was a book about grief, but it didn’t affect me in that way. Then I read it again — no, actually, I listened to Will Patton’s audiobook, which is a work of art in itself — and suddenly it wasn’t something I read from a distance.”

From Los Angeles Times

And in the voice-over the narrator Will Patton says something like, “He never spoke on a telephone.”

From Los Angeles Times

Walking around with that naturalist, meeting the Kootenai people who were reintroducing the sturgeon into the river systems, and of course, listening to Will Patton narrate the book and feeling like I was hearing the book for the first time even though I had read it at least five times by then.

From Los Angeles Times

With her windswept head stretched far out the car window, she seemed a canine Gen. Patton scanning the horizon in the race to Messina.

From The Wall Street Journal

"They treat a whole host of maladies," said Thomas Patton, a professor at New York state's Union College who has studied Myanmar's mystics.

From Barron's