Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mitchell
IPA transcription: [m'ɪtʃəl]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Mitchell, Arthur_Mitchell
    Meaning: United States dancer who formed the first Black classical ballet company (born in 1934)
  • Synonyms: Mitchell, John_Mitchell
    Meaning: United States labor leader; president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898 to 1908 (1870-1919)
  • Synonyms: Mitchell, Margaret_Mitchell, Margaret_Munnerlyn_Mitchell
    Meaning: United States writer noted for her novel about the South during the American Civil War (1900-1949)
  • Synonyms: Mitchell, Maria_Mitchell
    Meaning: United States astronomer who studied sunspots and nebulae (1818-1889)
  • Synonyms: Mitchell, William_Mitchell, Billy_Mitchell
    Meaning: United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936)
  • Synonyms: Mitchell, R._J._Mitchell, Reginald_Joseph_Mitchell
    Meaning: English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937)
Usage examples
  • "Now, Mrs. Mitchell!" he said.
  • "Very well, Mrs. Mitchell; I will speak to them about it."
  • He turned at last to Mrs. Mitchell, who, but for her rage, would have been in an abject condition.
  • She had been right about Jerry Mitchell; was she to be proved right about the self-styled Jimmy Crocker?
  • We have known a man to gain the sobriquet of "Split-log Mitchell" by indulging in the luxury of building a cabin of square-hewn timbers.
  • Captain Mitchell had snatched at the occasion of leave-taking to remark to Mrs. Gould, in a low, confidential mutter, "This marks an epoch."
  • I would send you out of the room at once, but you must beg Mrs. Mitchell's pardon first, and after that there will be something more to say, I fear."
  • At that time Nostromo had been already long enough in the country to raise to the highest pitch Captain Mitchell's opinion of the extraordinary value of his discovery.
  • I will try to show you the wrong you have done.--Had you told me without doing anything yourselves, then I might have succeeded in bringing Mrs. Mitchell to repentance.
  • Professor Mitchell, to whom the fact was communicated, employed his assistants to ascertain the exact position of the heavenly bodies belonging to our solar system on the equinox of that year.