Definition of Benchley

1. Noun. United States humorist (1889-1945).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Benchley

Ben Jonson
Ben Nevis
Ben Shahn
Ben Sira
Bena
Benadryl
Benares
Benas
Bence Jones albumin
Bence Jones protein
Bence Jones proteins
Bence Jones proteinuria
Bence Jones reaction
Benchley (current term)
Benday process
Bende
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt test
Bender gestalt test
Bendopa
Benedek's reflex
Benedict
Benedict's reagent
Benedict's solution
Benedict's test for glucose
Benedict-Hopkins-Cole reagent
Benedict-Roth apparatus
Benedict-Roth calorimeter
Benedict Arnold

Literary usage of Benchley

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our American Humorists by Thomas Lansing Masson (1922)
"A CHAPTER IV ROBERT C. Benchley FTER keeping at Mr. Benchley for weeks, nay months, ... Mr. Benchley was originally born in Worcester, Massachusetts. ..."

2. The Builders of a Great City: San Francisco's Representative Men, the City by San Francisco Journal of Commerce (1891)
"They were good times for trade and here Mr. Benchley, embarked in the wholesale grocery business. In this he was very successful. All this time, however, ..."

3. Lineage Book by Daughters of the American Revolution (1904)
"Descendant of Joseph Benchley. Daughter of Leonidas Brown Benchley and ... Gr.-granddaughter of Joseph Benchley and Lucinia Brown (1762- 1814), his wife. ..."

4. The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster: Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks by Arthur Lester Byron-Curtiss (1912)
"At the hunter's call Benchley rowed to him, he not knowing Benchley had seen him shoot or the deer fall. "Well, Uncle Nat," said Benchley, "have you killed ..."

5. The Story of Worcester, Massachusetts by Thomas Francis O'Flynn (1910)
"Lieutenant Benchley was given twenty days' furlough. He came home, and was one of the reviewing party when the local companies of the 2nd and 9th Regiments ..."

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