Definition of Hawkins

1. Noun. English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595).


2. Noun. United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969).
Exact synonyms: Coleman Hawkins
Generic synonyms: Saxist, Saxophonist

Definition of Hawkins

1. Proper noun. (surname A=An English patronymic from=given names) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkins

Hawaiians
Hawcubite
Hawcubites
Hawe
Hawes
Hawick
Hawiye
Hawiyes
Hawk-Eye
Hawkeye
Hawkeye State
Hawkin
Hawking
Hawking radiation
Hawkings
Hawkins (current term)
Hawkyns
Hawley appliance
Hawley retainer
Haworth
Haworth conformational formula
Haworth perspective formula
Hawsmith
Hawson
Hawthorne
Hawthorne effect
Hawthornean
Hawthornian
Haya
Hayastan

Literary usage of Hawkins

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

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"John Hawkins, Susannah his wife, and Thomas Hawkins did grant, bargain and sell to W. Welby, his heirs, acc. the premises in question, among divers land in ..."

2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"Philip paid the money for which Fitzwilliam asked, some forty or fifty thousand pounds, through his agents in England. He made Hawkins himself a grandee of ..."

3. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"John Hawkins and George Simpson were indicted for robbing the mail, ... Hawkins, in his defense, set up an alibi, to prove which, he called one William ..."

4. Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989 by Bruce A. Ragsdale, Joel D. Treese (1996)
"(Office of Representative Hawkins) United States Representative Democrat of California Eighty-eighth—One Hundred First Congresses With his reelection to the ..."

5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Hawkins anchored in the harbour — a narrow inlet between the small, ... Hawkins afterwards declared, truly enough, that with the guns which he had mounted ..."

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