Definition of Robeson

1. Noun. United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976).


Definition of Robeson

1. Proper noun. (surname from=given names) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Robeson

Robert Walpole
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
Robert William Service
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Robert the Bruce
Roberta
Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine
Roberts
Roberts syndrome
Robertshaw tube
Robertson
Robertson pupil
Robertson screw
Robertson screwdriver
Robertsonian translocation
Robeson (current term)
Robeson Channel
Robespierre
Robespierrean
Robey
Robin
Robin's syndrome
Robin Goodfellow
Robin Hood
Robinia hispida
Robinia pseudoacacia
Robinia viscosa
Robins

Literary usage of Robeson

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

1. Pennsylvania Archivesby Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1878)
"1771, June 17, Robeson, Ann, and John Conrad Thish. 1769, Sept. 2, Robeson, Anne, and John ... 1779, June 7, Robeson, Margarett, and Francis Winstanley. ..."

2. Harvard Memorial Biographies by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1866)
"He was a son of Thomas Rodman and Sibyl (Washburn) Robeson. ... Andrew Robeson established, under many discouragements and difficulties, the print-works ..."

3. Harvard Memorial Biographies by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1866)
"He was a son of Thomas Rodman and Sibyl (Washburn) Robeson. ... Andrew Robeson established, under many discouragements and difficulties, the print-works ..."

4. Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present by Samuel A'Court Ashe (1908)
"THOMAS Robeson WISE man was once asked, "When should the education of a youth ... Nature was kind in giving Colonel Thomas Robeson the ideal grandfather. ..."

5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"Robeson FOR THE PRISONER. July 1. Mr. Robeson. May it please the Court—Gentlemen of the jury: As citizens of the State of New Jersey, whose laws have been ..."

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