Definition of Eastman

1. Noun. United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932).

Exact synonyms: George Eastman
Generic synonyms: Industrialist, Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eastman

Eastern Sioux
Eastern Standard Time
Eastern Time
Eastern Turki
Eastern cottonwood
Eastern hop hornbeam
Eastern pasque flower
Eastern silvery aster
Easters
Eastertide
Eastertime
Eastertimes
Eastery
Eastie
Eastleigh
Eastman (current term)
Eastoft
Eat at Joe's
Eaton agent
Eaton agent pneumonia
Eau Claire
EbN
EbS
Ebbie
Ebbinghaus illusion
Ebbinghaus test
Ebenaceae
Ebenales
Ebenezer

Literary usage of Eastman

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

1. A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution by Sons of the American Revolution (1902)
"Son of WM and Carrie C. (Eastman) Duncan; grandson of Elbridge Gerry and Lucy ... Son of Elbridge Gerry and Lucy Ann (Carr) Eastman; grandson of Timothy and ..."

2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1916)
"Through his mother, Mary Lang Eastman of Concord, Colonel Pecker was ... Ebenezer Eastman, one of the first settlers of Concord, and commander of a company ..."

3. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ...by John Howard Brown by John Howard Brown (1904)
"Eastman was ordained a deacon and subsequently a priest. He was assistant minister in Christ church, New York, 1822-27, and rector of the Church of the ..."

4. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1873)
"21677 Eastman (JR) Discussion of the West India Cyclone of Oct. 29 and 30, 1867. ... 21679 Eastman (LR) Genealogy of the Eastman Family, for the first four ..."

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