Lewis Definition

lo͝oĭs
noun
A device for hoisting blocks of stone, consisting of a dovetailed iron tenon made in sections that fit into a mortise cut into the stone.
Webster's New World
A masculine name: dim. Lew, Lewie.
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A kind of shears used in cropping woollen cloth.

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Synonyms:
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Frederick Carleton Lewis
  • carl lewis
  • meriwether lewis
  • John Llewelly Lewis
  • John L. Lewis
  • harry sinclair lewis
  • Sinclair Lewis
  • C. S. Lewis
  • clive staples lewis
pronoun

A male given name of Norman origin, the English form of Louis.

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An English patronymic surname.

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A Welsh surname; anglicized form of Llewellyn.

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The Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
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The title given to a partially apprenticed Freemason who is normally the Master or Son of a practicing Freemason; One practising or learning the degrees of Freemasonry after introduction to the degrees and before full induction or before becoming a Worshipful Brother.

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Other Word Forms of Lewis

Noun

Singular:
lewis
Plural:
lewises

Origin of Lewis

  • Perhaps from the name Lewis

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lewis Sentence Examples

  • It does not appear Rudman is responsible for Amy Lou Lewis, who remains missing from her Cranston, Rhode Island home since last week.

  • He had a Lewis Carroll smile on his face.

  • In 1 774 the governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, himself led a force over the mountains, and a body of militia under General Andrew Lewis dealt the Shawnee Indians under Cornstalk a crushing blow at Point Pleasant at the junction of the Kanawha and the Ohio rivers, but Indian attacks continued until after the War of Independence.

  • The edition of the Republic, undertaken in 1856, remained unfinished, but was continued with the help of Professor Lewis Campbell.

  • English Puritans emigrated under the auspices of the Virginia Company to the Bermudas in 1612; and in 1617 a Presbyterian Church, governed by ministers and four elders, was established there by Lewis Hughes, who used the liturgy of the isles of Guernsey and Jersey.

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