Robert

American  

[rob-ert] / ˈrɒb ərt /

noun

1. Henry Martyn 1837–1923, U.S. engineer and authority on parliamentary procedure: author of Robert's Rules of Order (1876, revised 1915).

2. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “glory” and “bright.”

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Example Sentences

State and local election officials will be able to report results faster if voters return their mail ballots earlier, says Stephen Richer, adjunct scholar with Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal

I was thinking about this after reading about all the shenanigans Robert Redford and Paul Newman pulled on each other.

From Los Angeles Times

And though Robert’s a lumberjack, I’m putting all the trappings of it aside on an emotional level.

From Los Angeles Times

A “Three Days of the Condor” poster signed to me by Robert Redford occupied a prominent place on the wall across the room.

From Los Angeles Times

“The oil is liquid gold,” said Robert Pape, an expert on insurgencies and warfare at the University of Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal