Definition of Thoreau

1. Noun. United States writer and social critic (1817-1862).

Exact synonyms: Henry David Thoreau
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer
Derivative terms: Thoreauvian

Definition of Thoreau

1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thoreau

Thomson
Thomson's disease
Thomson's gazelle
Thomson's sign
Thomson scattering
Thomsonian
Thomsonianism
Thomsonians
Thomæan
Thor
Thor's beard
Thor's hammer
Thor Hyerdahl
Thora
Thorazine
Thoreau (current term)
Thoreauan
Thoreauvian
Thormahlen
Thormahlen's test
Thorn
Thorn's syndrome
Thorn test
Thorndike
Thorne
Thornton
Thornton Niven Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornwaldt
Thoroughbred

Literary usage of Thoreau

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

1. Theories of Style, with Especial Reference to Prose Composition: Essays edited by Lane Cooper (1907)
"I thought," said Thoreau of his first book, " that it had little of the atmosphere of ... See also the impressions of William Ellery Channing in Thoreau, ..."

2. American Prose (1607-1865) by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1898)
"But wherever Thoreau lived, and whatever was his occupation, ... Thoreau was a man whose personal views and tenets were carried out to the point of ..."

3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1866)
"Thoreau.1 It becomes pure spirits to feed on balmy air in a forest blooming with trees of ... Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this plant, ..."

4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1891)
"ARTICLE V.—TEN VOLUMES OF Thoreau. POSTHUMOUS success is an excellent thing in its way, but it is natural to wish for earlier returns from our investments. ..."

5. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"HENRY D. Thoreau (1817-1862) BY JOHN BURROUGHS JN THE front of the second order of American authors we must place Henry D. Thoreau. ..."

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