Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun owens

1 sense of owens

Sense 1
Owens, Jesse Owens, James Cleveland Owens -- (United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980))
       INSTANCE OF=> athlete, jock -- (a person trained to compete in sports)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun owen

2 senses of owen

Sense 1
Owen, Robert Owen -- (Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858))
       INSTANCE OF=> industrialist -- (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
       INSTANCE OF=> reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist -- (a disputant who advocates reform)

Sense 2
Owen, Sir Richard Owen -- (English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892))
       INSTANCE OF=> paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist -- (a specialist in paleontology)
       INSTANCE OF=> comparative anatomist -- (anatomist who compares the anatomy of different animals)