American English pronunciation
How to pronounce whitman
IPA transcription: ['wɪtmən]
Pronunciation variants: ['wɪtmən][h'wɪtmən]
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Noun
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United States poet who celebrated the greatness of America (1819-1892)
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United States frontier missionary who established a post in Oregon where Christianity and schooling and medicine were available to Native Americans (1802-1847)
Usage examples
- Before long, Whitman's chocolates were popular throughout the northeastern United States.
- Thus, Whitman's poem serves as a fitting tribute to the proper explorer.
- Eells obtained a charter for Whitman Seminary, a pre-collegiate school, from the territorial legislature.
- Before long, Whitman's chocolates were popular throughout the northeastern United States.
- The lands included the current towns of Bridgewater, Rockland, Whitman, and parts of Hanover.
- Rohner was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Whitman College.
- She attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
- Whitman was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York.
- Whitman believed the controversy would increase sales, which proved true.
- The picture stars Stuart Whitman, Maria Schell, Rod Steiger and Brenda De Banzie.