Whistler Synonyms

wĭslər, hwĭs-
Large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. goldeneye
  2. Bucephela clangula
United States painter (1834-1903)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. james abbott mcneill whistler
Large North American mountain marmot
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hoary-marmot
  2. whistling-marmot
  3. Marmota caligata
Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. thickhead

Whistler Sentence Examples

  • He lived, on the invitation of Dr Whistler, for a short time in 1682 at the College of Physicians, but died on the 12th of December 1685 at the house of Mr Cothorne, reader of the church of St Giles-in-the Fields.

  • Later, the names of Turner, Rossetti, Whistler, Leigh Hunt, Carlyle (whose house in Cheyne Row is preserved as a public memorial), Count D'Orsay, and Isambard Brunel, are intimately connected with Chelsea.

  • Friction between the settlers and the Indians could not long be avoided, and in 1827 Red Bird and his band of Winnebago attacked the whites, but after some bloodshed they were defeated by Major William Whistler (1780-1863) of Fort Howard.

  • Such was the famous reply given by the nineteenth century artist James McNeil Whistler to what seemed to him like a rather impertinent question.

  • He used the pseudonym, " The Whistler at the Plow " .

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