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addison
/ˈædəsən/
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What does addison mean?
proper noun
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname popular in the 2000s, following Alison and Madison.
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- A town in Winston County, Alabama, United States.
- A town in Addison County, Vermont, United States, named after the poet Joseph Addison.
- Synonym of Webster Springs, West Virginia; this is actually the official name, after landowner Addison McLaughlin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Addison Township.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈædəsən/
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Johnson's “Lives of the Poets,” the writings of Dryden, Addison, Pope, Clarendon, and other authors of celebrity, he read with attention.
Although based on error, and opposed by Cabeus and others, this fascinating notion continued to crop up even to the days of Addison.
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The young women of Addison are nearly fourteen years old.
The coffee-houses of London in the early half of the eighteenth century became, in fact, tea-houses, the resort of wits like Addison and Steele, who beguiled themselves over their "dish of tea."
Mr. Addison sent for the young Lord Warwick, as he was dying, to show him in what peace a Christian could die--unluckily he died of brandy-nothing makes a Christian die in peace like being maudlin!