Definition of John cheever

1. Noun. United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982).

Exact synonyms: Cheever
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Cheever

John Bernoulli
John Berry Hobbs
John Birks Gillespie
John Broadus Watson
John Brown
John Bull
John Bunyan
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
John Burgoyne
John C. Fremont
John Cabot
John Cage
John Calvin
John Chapman
John Charles Fremont
John Cheever
John Chrysostom
John Churchill
John Ciardi
John Constable
John Copley
John D. Rockefeller
John Dalton
John Davis
John Davison Rockefeller
John Davys
John Deere
John Dewey
John Doe
John Does

Literary usage of John cheever

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

1. The Naval Monument: Containing Official and Other Accounts of All the by Abel Bowen (1830)
"john cheever was mortally wounded in the late action -with the Java. Whilst lying on the deck, apparently dying, the word was passed the enemy had struck. ..."

2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1879)
"1,1822, to john cheever, Jr., his eldest son. His widow d. in Manchester, Dec. 5, 1824, aged 71 years. His children, all by his first wife and all b. in ..."

3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"sweating and sleeping fitfully in the overheated coach, they seemed, to Badger, to share a great commonality of intimacy and weariness —john cheever, ..."

4. Historical Sketches of Bluehill, Maine by R[ufus] G[eorge] F[rederick] Candage (1905)
"... by john cheever; brig Delhi of 175 tons, 1848, by john cheever; brig Equator of 156 tons, 1850, by john cheever, and others whose data are not at hand. ..."

5. Representative Women of New England by Julia Ward Howe, Mary Elvira Elliott (1904)
"john cheever married Dolly Wheeler, of Marlboro, NH, who was a daughter of David and Rebecca (Hoar) Wheeler. David Wheeler, her father, was Town Clerk of ..."

6. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of by Ezra Scollay Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker, Lewis Publishing Company, Lewis publishing company, Chicago (1908)
"She died in 1901, leaving two sons—Dr. john cheever, of Leominster, Massachusetts, and Rev. Ralph Cheever, pastor of the Universalist Church at Woodstock ..."

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