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  • proper noun A patronymic surname, "son of Sim", variant of Simpson.
  • proper noun rare A male given name transferred from the surname.

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Examples

  • This line is usually referred to as the Simson line.

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  • The line that these three points determine is often called the Simson line (further

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  • I have never seen anything more stupid than this "Simson" Garbage ...

    Simpsons billionaire gets most write-in votes in NYC mayor race 2009

  • "Simson" (pronounce Schimmeschon), The opera itself will be finished next year.

    Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Tr 1888

  • "Simson," he called, "he says this may keep me laid up for two weeks.

    Behind the line A story of college life and football Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • No wonder many are turning to a timely new book, "The Limits of Strategy," by veteran consultant Ernest von Simson, who saw up close how once-great firms like Digital Equipment and Wang Labs were felled by the PC.

    What Price the Cloud? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • "We're seeing a complete flight to quality," says David Simson, a broker at Newmark Knight Frank.

    Wedding Night 2011

  • Pictometry Top right, 200 Schulz Drive Mr. Simson just represented Ansell Ltd. In its decision to move from a 25-year-old building at 200 Schulz Drive in Red Bank to anchor Metrotop Plaza II, a brand-new 250,000-square-foot office tower in Iselin, N.J. Ansell, a manufacturer of medical gloves and protective clothing, will get an image boost from the new glass tower, which includes a full-service cafeteria, event center and fitness center.

    Wedding Night 2011

  • Of course, as Von Simson reminds us, a desire to evoke heaven and for the church to stand as a symbol of the new Jerusalem was not unique or new to Gothic architecture; one sees the same impulse in Byzantine and Romanesque buildings, and again very vividly in later Baroque architecture.

    The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 2 2009

  • Von Simson states that “the church is, mystically and liturgically, an image of heaven”, particularly the vision presented in Revelation of the “holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven” (21: 2).

    The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 2 2009

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