Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Tomlinsonian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌtɒm.lɪnˈsəʊ.ni.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˌtɑm.lɪnˈsoʊ.ni.ən/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Tomlinson + -ian.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to a figure with the surname Tomlinson, especially the eponymous protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tomlinson".
    • He is as Lucifer would be were that proud spirit banished to a society of soulless, Tomlinsonian ghosts. 1904, Jack London, chapter 10, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC: