Definition of Isherwood

1. Noun. United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Isherwood

Isamu Noguchi
Isan
Isatis tinctoria
Isauria
Iscariot
Iscariots
Ischigualastia
Isere
Isere River
Isernia
Iseult
Isfahan
Ish
Ishak
Ishani
Isherwood (current term)
Ishihara test
Ishikawa
Ishikawa diagram
Ishikawa diagrams
Ishmael
Ishmaelite
Ishmaelites
Ishmaelitish
Isiac
Isiah
Isidian
Isidor Feinstein Stone
Isidora

Literary usage of Isherwood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1895)
"B. 567, 568. death of the said John Isherwood, and for many years had been, ... That the said Elizabeth Isherwood, Miriam Isherwood, Anne Magdalene ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"Mr. Isherwood as a witness on the opposite side. The jury pave their verdict for a saving of 34 per cent, produced by the Sickles cut-oil'. ..."

3. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1846)
"Mr. Isherwood had insured his life in the Pelican Office for £5000. The probate to Mrs. Isherwood and the daughters was taken out early in December, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"There JB Isherwood, being seised in fee, devised to HB Isherwood for life, with several ... JB Isherwood died, and HB Isherwood became seised for life, and, ..."

5. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and by John Burke (1835)
"NATHANIEL Isherwood, who i. to the ... the estates devolved upon his only surviving brother, JOHN Isherwood, ... Quarterings : 1. and 6, Isherwood. 2. ..."

6. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1908)
"There JB Isherwood, being seised in fee, devised to HB Isherwood for life, with several ... JB Isherwood died, and HB Isherwood became seised for life, and, ..."

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