Conrad

[ kon-rad ]

noun
  1. Charles, Jr. "Pete", 1930–1999, U.S. astronaut.

  2. Joseph Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857–1924, English novelist and short-story writer, born in Poland.

  1. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “bold” and “counsel.”

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How to use Conrad in a sentence

  • In their main outlines they are not unlike the fundamental assumptions of Joseph Conrad.

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  • Joseph Conrad declared, “The dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living.”

British Dictionary definitions for Conrad

Conrad

/ (ˈkɒnræd) /


noun
  1. Joseph. real name Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski. 1857–1924, British novelist born in Poland, noted for sea stories such as The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897) and Lord Jim (1900) and novels of politics and revolution such as Nostromo (1904) and Under Western Eyes (1911)

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