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peabody
/ˈpibɑdi/
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What does peabody mean?
proper noun
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Whitley County, Indiana.
- A minor city in Marion County, Kansas, named after F. H. Peabody, a director of the Santa Fe.
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proper noun
- A city in Essex County, Massachusetts, named after George Peabody.
- A neighbourhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a synonym of Neighborhood Nine.
- The Peabody Award, granted annually and internationally for excellence in broadcasting.
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Here, for example, is Rev. F. G. Peabody, Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University.
It is based on a model prepared by Dr. Patrick for the Peabody Museum.
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On my way down Union street I saw a large pile of coal in front of the house of Rev. Ephraim Peabody, the Unitarian minister.
It may have been thought that the contrast was too glaring, that even the exigencies of national biography had no right to make the philanthropist Peabody rub shoulders with man's constant enemy, Peace.
We all know that the average business man is neither a Peabody nor a Carnegie, but it was quite unnecessary for this gentleman to announce that his sole object was to make money out of the Chinese.