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

“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics,” Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics, said in 1987.

From Barron's

Signatories to that statement included ex-justice secretary Robert Buckland, former attorney general Dominic Grieve, and Lady Cherie Blair, a human rights lawyer and wife of former prime minister Sir Tony Blair.

From BBC

“People are asking, ‘How can I afford this?’” said Robert Peltier, who owns dealerships in East Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal

By 1707, Scotland was an independent nation no more, as a song attributed to Robert Burns put it, bought and sold for English gold.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The martini has gone through various phases over its long life,” veteran drinks journalist and cocktail expert Robert Simonson tells me.

From Salon