Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: rodgers
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɑdʒɚz]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Rodgers, Richard_Rodgers
    Meaning: United States composer of musical comedies (especially in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II and with Lorenz Hart) (1902-1979)
Usage examples
  • Very good reasons were given by Charles for the charge which he made against Rodgers, and it went far towards establishing the fact, that "colored men had no rights which white men were bound to respect," in Maryland.
  • John was owned by one James B. Rodgers, a farmer, and "a most every kind of man," as John expressed himself; in fact John thought that his owner was such a strange, wicked, and cross character that he couldn't tell himself what he was.