Kendall

[ ken-dl ]

noun
  1. Edward Calvin, 1886–1972, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.

  2. a male given name.

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How to use Kendall in a sentence

  • And the Kendalls do the finest garden and outdoor studies, as you know.

    Mrs. Red Pepper | Grace S. Richmond
  • Two larger boys climbed to the back and hung there with swinging feet, their jeering lips close to Miss Kendalls shrinking ears.

    The Turn of the Tide | Eleanor H. Porter
  • The night of the Kendalls' dance I knew what Cleopatra's cosmic consciousness resembled—exactly.

    Amazing Grace | Kate Trimble Sharber
  • The story was dramatized in London, and in it the Kendalls scored a great theatrical success.

    The Coast of Chance | Esther Chamberlain
  • He hid, from all but the Kendalls, his private ambitions and hopes.

    The Man Thou Gavest | Harriet T. Comstock

British Dictionary definitions for Kendall

Kendall

/ (ˈkɛndəl) /


noun
  1. Edward Calvin. 1886–1972, US biochemist, who isolated the hormone thyroxine (1916). He shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1950) with Phillip Hench and Tadeus Reichstein for their work on hormones

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