"Tom Sawyer" meaning in English

See Tom Sawyer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-prop}} Tom Sawyer
  1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a popular 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River. Categories (topical): American fiction, Fictional characters, Human behaviour
    Sense id: en-Tom_Sawyer-en-name-D~3WFJl3 Disambiguation of American fiction: 94 6 Disambiguation of Fictional characters: 89 11 Disambiguation of Human behaviour: 87 13 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 89 11 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 91 9

Verb

Forms: Tom Sawyers [present, singular, third-person], Tom Sawyering [participle, present], Tom Sawyered [participle, past], Tom Sawyered [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} Tom Sawyer (third-person singular simple present Tom Sawyers, present participle Tom Sawyering, simple past and past participle Tom Sawyered)
  1. To convince someone to volunteer, especially to do something which one should do oneself.
    Sense id: en-Tom_Sawyer-en-verb-NHS0HVJ3

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Tom Sawyer meaning in English (2.4kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Tom Sawyer",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "American fiction",
          "orig": "en:American fiction",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "United States",
            "Artistic works",
            "North America",
            "Art",
            "America",
            "Culture",
            "Earth",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fictional characters",
          "orig": "en:Fictional characters",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Art",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Human behaviour",
          "orig": "en:Human behaviour",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a popular 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River."
      ],
      "id": "en-Tom_Sawyer-en-name-D~3WFJl3"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tom Sawyer"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Tom Sawyers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Tom Sawyering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Tom Sawyered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Tom Sawyered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Tom Sawyer (third-person singular simple present Tom Sawyers, present participle Tom Sawyering, simple past and past participle Tom Sawyered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To convince someone to volunteer, especially to do something which one should do oneself."
      ],
      "id": "en-Tom_Sawyer-en-verb-NHS0HVJ3",
      "links": [
        [
          "convince",
          "convince"
        ],
        [
          "volunteer",
          "volunteer"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tom Sawyer"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "en:American fiction",
    "en:Fictional characters",
    "en:Human behaviour"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Tom Sawyer",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a popular 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tom Sawyer"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "en:American fiction",
    "en:Fictional characters",
    "en:Human behaviour"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Tom Sawyers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Tom Sawyering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Tom Sawyered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Tom Sawyered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Tom Sawyer (third-person singular simple present Tom Sawyers, present participle Tom Sawyering, simple past and past participle Tom Sawyered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To convince someone to volunteer, especially to do something which one should do oneself."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "convince",
          "convince"
        ],
        [
          "volunteer",
          "volunteer"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tom Sawyer"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.