lewis
IPA: ɫˈuɪs
Root Word: Lewis
noun
- A male given name from Frankish
- A surname.
- An English surname originating as a patronymic.
- A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an anglicization of Lobhaois, itself from Old French Louis.
- A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic], an adopted anglicization of Llywelyn.
- 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.
- A locale in the United States:
- A census-designated place in Montezuma County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Vigo County, Indiana.
- A minor city in Cass County, Iowa.
- A minor city in Edwards County, Kansas; named for journalist M. M. Lewis.
- An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri; named for landowner Howell Lewis.
- A town in Essex County, New York; named for Morgan Lewis, 3rd Governor of New York.
- A town in Lewis County, New York; named for its county, itself for Morgan Lewis.
- An unincorporated community in Granville County, North Carolina.
- A town in Essex County, Vermont; named for landowners Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis.
- A census-designated place in Clam Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin; named for founder Charles E. Lewis.
- A ghost town in California.
- A number of townships, listed under Lewis Township.
- A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in Freemasonry.
- (by extension, figurative) The son of a Freemason, envisaged as assisting his father in heavy work or in old age.
- A kind of shears used in cropping woollen cloth.
- Ellipsis of Isle of Lewis; an island in Scotland, United Kingdom. [An island area, the larger northern part of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, Western Isles council area, Scotland.]
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Examples of "lewis" in Sentences
- His father gave him a lewis.
- I used a lewis to turn it down.
- Lewis was uninjured in the attack.
- I use a lewis instead of a hammer.
- Lewis graciously let the matter be.
- I am not good at handling the lewis.
- Lewis was the female lead in the film.
- Lewis wrote the introduction to the book.
- He used lewis in order to pick up the hot stone.
- It is the northernmost point of the Isle of Lewis.
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