Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: vaughan
IPA transcription: [v'ɔn]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Vaughan, Sarah_Vaughan
    Meaning: United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990)
Usage examples
  • But Vaughan was not to lead.
  • Vaughan then retired for the night.
  • Within a yard of me stood Mr. Edgar Vaughan.
  • Mr. Vaughan was gone; but on the grass at my feet lay a folded letter.
  • A wild enthusiast, William Vaughan, urged Governor Shirley of Massachusetts to make an immediate counter-attack.
  • We arrived at Vaughan St. Mary late in the afternoon of the second day. The whole of the journey was to me a long and tearful dream.
  • Such, however, was the character of lady Vaughan, that, although she mingled little with the great families in the neighbourhood, she was so much respected, that she would have been a welcome visitor to most of them.
  • But when Dorothy Vaughan had passed a corner of the house to another garden more ancient in aspect, and in some things quaint even to grotesqueness, she was in front of a portion of the house which indicated a far statelier past--closed and done with, like the rooms within those shuttered windows.