Lowell
['ləuəl]
Definition
(noun.) United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943).
(noun.) United States poet (1874-1925).
(noun.) United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916).
(noun.) United States poet (1917-1977).
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Examples
- Lowell of Boston, who had been studying the art of spinning and weaving in England and Scotland and the inventions of Arkwright and Crompton, to establish in 1813 at Waltham, Mass. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But he was ambitious, and when he was sixteen, a friend having brought him glowing tales of the great cotton-mills in the fast-growing city of Lowell, he decided to seek his fortune there. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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