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Hopkins

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Noun

1. hopkins, mark hopkins

United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)

2. hopkins, johns hopkins

United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)

3. gerard manley hopkins, hopkins

English poet (1844-1889)

4. hopkins, sir frederick gowland hopkins

English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)

5. anthony hopkins, hopkins, sir anthony hopkins, sir anthony philip hopkins

Welsh film actor (born in 1937)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hopkins

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noun
1. 
Sir Anthony. born 1937, Welsh actor: his films include Bounty (1984), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Shadowlands (1994), Nixon (1995), and Hannibal (2001)
2. 
Sir Frederick Gowland (ˈɡaʊlənd). 1861–1947, British biochemist, who pioneered research into what came to be called vitamins: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1929)
3. 
Gerard Manley. 1844–89, British poet and Jesuit priest, who experimented with sprung rhythm in his highly original poetry
4. 
Harry L(loyd). 1890–1946, US administrator. During World War II he was a personal aide to President Roosevelt and administered the lend-lease programme

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Hopkins

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1. 
Sirˈ Frederick Gowland (ˈgaʊlənd ) ; gouˈlənd) 1861-1947; Eng. biochemist
2. 
ˈGerard Manley (ˈmænli ) ; manˈlē) 1844-89; Eng. poet & Jesuit priest
3. 
Johns1795-1873; U.S. financier & philanthropist
4. 
Mark1802-87; U.S. educator

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hopkins

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American financier and philanthropist who left $7 million to found the hospital and university in Baltimore that bear his name.
British poet known for a number of works published posthumously, including “The Wreck of the Deutschland” and “The Windhover.”

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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