Hawkins Synonyms

hôkinz
English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hawkyns
  2. sir john hawkins
  3. Sir John Hawkyns
United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. coleman hawkins

Hawkins Sentence Examples

  • The beautiful sounds of The Coleman Hawkins Quartet doing "The Man I Love" as it ought to be done were playing and Mrs. Lincoln never looked more content.

  • The almshouse established in 1592 by Sir John Hawkins for decayed seamen and shipwrights is still extant, the building having been re-erected in the 19th century; but the fund called the Chatham Chest, originated by Hawkins and Drake in 1588, was incorporated with Greenwich Hospital in 1802.

  • In 1577 Francis Drake, who had previously served with Hawkins in the West Indies, undertook his celebrated voyage round the world.

  • Hawkins declared his object to be discovery and the survey of unknown lands, and his voyage, though terminating in disaster, bore good fruit.

  • The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins in his Voyage into the South Sea, published in 1622, are very valuable.

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