Robert
Americannoun
-
Henry Martyn 1837–1923, U.S. engineer and authority on parliamentary procedure: author of Robert's Rules of Order (1876, revised 1915).
-
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “glory” and “bright.”
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Reports suggest that Bonnie and her husband, Robert Sullivan, own 22 homes worldwide, though they mainly split their time between Portugal and their home in Mumbles, Swansea.
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2026
Canadian trade surpluses can come and go quickly with swings in oil prices, and this reading is likely the high-water mark for now, said Robert Kavcic, senior economist at Bank of Montreal Capital Markets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026
“For decades, many association-governed communities kept the monthly assessments artificially low by quietly underfunding their reserves,” said Robert Nordlund, the founder and CEO of Association Reserves.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 7, 2026
Robert Dickman, for one, was convalescing at a hospital in Queens.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2026
Working independently, they both revisit the work of Robert Hooke, the microscope observer who came up with the name cell in 1665.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
