lewis Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
    Jerry Lee Lewis.
  2. noun United States athlete who won gold medals at the Olympics for his skill in sprinting and jumping (born in 1961)
    Frederick Carleton Lewis; Carl Lewis.
  3. noun United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)
    Meriwether Lewis.
  4. noun United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)
    John L. Lewis; John Llewelly Lewis.
  5. noun United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)
    Sinclair Lewis; Harry Sinclair Lewis.
  6. noun English critic and novelist; author of theological works and of books for children (1898-1963)
    Clive Staples Lewis; C. S. Lewis.

WordNet

Lew"is, Lew"is*son noun (Also<
  • Lewis
  • Lewisson
)
Definitions
  1. An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.
  2. A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth. De Foe. Lewis acid (Chem) A compound without dissociable hydrogen which acts as an acid (bonding with Lewis bases) in chemical reaction.

Webster 1913