lincoln
part of speech
noun (Lincoln; a proper noun — a name)
meaning for a pupil
1) Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, who led the country during the American Civil War and worked to end slavery. tree →
2) A city in the east of England, famous for its cathedral and castle; also the capital of Nebraska in the USA. tree →
3) A surname and a first name. tree →
4) Lincoln green is a deep green colour, named after the city of Lincoln. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons Abraham Lincoln is known for ending slavery in the USA, for the Gettysburg Address and for being honest («Honest Abe»); his face is on the US five-dollar bill and the penny. In geography, Lincoln is a city in England and in Nebraska. «Lincoln Memorial» is a famous monument in Washington, D.C.
examples
- Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. tree →
- Lincoln's face is on the American penny. tree →
- We visited the cathedral in Lincoln. tree →
- Lincoln gave a famous speech at Gettysburg. tree →
- Lincoln is the capital of Nebraska. tree →
- People called him «Honest Abe» Lincoln. tree →
- My cousin's name is Lincoln. tree →
- So they made a cloak of Lincoln green, with a hood to it, and put it by the hearth and watched. tree →
note
A name always has a capital letter: Lincoln. The second «l» is silent: say «LINK-un». Lincoln was president during the American Civil War and was killed soon after it ended.
In the corpora
- Abraham Lincoln, a US president, died in 1865, long before computers and the internet existed.
- A score is 20 in old English, so "four score and seven" (Lincoln, 1863) is 87.
- Lincoln Cathedral in England was probably the tallest building in the world for about 200 years, until its spire fell in 1548.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «lincoln» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.