Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A railroad parlor car or sleeping car.
- noun A large suitcase.
- Philip,British writer whose trilogy His Dark Materials (1995–2000), a work of fantasy marketed to younger readers, depicts a spiritual war that is waged across parallel universes and pivots on the decisions of one girl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In car-building, a parlor- or sleeping-car, specifically, and properly, one made by the Pullman Company.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A railroad
passenger car ; especially, one of the luxurious ones named after the eponymous Pullman Palace Car Company.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Pullman is about as likely to turn a child into a godless heathen as Rowling is of recruiting a child into a witch's coven -- or Tolkein convincing youths a better life is to be had as a garden gnome.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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The new article on strawberries from researchers at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, has revealed that organic strawberries are rated higher than conventional strawberries in several areas.
Dr. Walter Crinnion: Could Organic Produce Be the New Ritalin? Dr. Walter Crinnion 2010
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Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch at Washington State University in Pullman believes that the reliance on water by life forms on Earth is purely coincidental.
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Pullman is about as likely to turn a child into a godless heathen as Rowling is of recruiting a child into a witch's coven -- or Tolkein convincing youths a better life is to be had as a garden gnome.
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To be fair, I am not saying Pullman is some sort of neo-Nazi.
Film 2010
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Pullman is certainly not making any claims about how things actually are, but rather extrapolating one possibility of how they might be.
mrissa: books read, late March mrissa 2010
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And Phillip Pullman is not a monster, just someone with different views than me.
"What do YOU do when your favorite author turns out to be a puppy-kicker?" Roger Sutton 2009
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WSU is in Pullman, WA and there are bars, places to shop, on campus and off campus music/theater events and during the late summer and early fall they have a lot of town festivals (the harvest festival is the best).
Think Progress » Catholic nuns break with bishops and urge passage of health care reform. 2010
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I found out via Bookshelves of Doom that Phillip Pullman is writing another book.
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Comparing JK Rowling to Philip Pullman is -- to turn the gender binary on its head -- like comparing Tom Clancy to Margaret Atwood.
Ladies-in-Waiting Roger Sutton 2008
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