| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Purblind; blinding.[Websters] 2. Seldom used base adjective of the adverb bissonly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (bissonly) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective bisson.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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Date "Bisson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Bisson or Bisen [blind] is the Anglo-Saxon bisen. Shakespeare (Hamlet, ii. 2) speaks of bisson rheum (blinding tears), and in Coriolanus, ii. 1, "What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character?" Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Chris Bisson | Chris Bisson (born 1975) is a British actor who first appeared as J.J. in Children's Ward in 1990. He has also appeared in Prime Suspect and Holby City, but he most recognized for his roles as Saleem Khan in East is East, Vikram Desai in Coronation Street and Kash in Shameless. He also appeared in the second series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!. (references) | ||
| Gilles Bisson | Gilles Bisson (born May 14, 1957 in Timmins, Ontario) is a Franco-Ontarian Canadian politician who has represented the northern riding of Timmins—James Bay in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990. He is a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, and currently serves as the party whip and as critic for the Ministries of Natural Resources, Northern Development and Mines, Aboriginal Affairs, Francophone Affairs and Transportation. (references) | ||
| T.A. Bisson | During World War Two, Thomas Arthur Bisson was an Asia specialist and Soviet spy working in the United States Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) and later the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR). He was also a founding editorial board member of Amerasia and China Today. (references) | ||
| Terry Bisson | Terry Ballantine Bisson (born February 12, 1942) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He is best known for his short stories, including "Bears Discover Fire" (1990), which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, but has also written several novels, including Voyage to the Red Planet (Morrow, 1990), Pirates of the Universe (Tor, 1996) and The Pickup Artist (Tor, 2001). A popular urban legend among science fiction fans is that Gardner Dozois, editor of Asimov's Science Fiction told Bisson to add "bears discovering fire or something" to the story of that name so that it could be considered a science fiction story, though Dozois has denied this. (references) | ||
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Extended Definition: BISSONBissonBisson is a surname, and may refer to:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Bisson". Image Credit. |
Topics by Level of Interest: BISSON | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Gilles Bisson | 19 | Alexandre Bisson | 5 | |
| Terry Bisson | 7 | Auguste-Rosalie Bisson | 3 | |
| Louis Bisson Bridge | 6 | Bisson | 2 | |
| Yannick Bisson | 5 | Chris Bisson | 3 | |
| Alexandre Bisson | 5 | Claude Bisson | 5 | |
| Claude Bisson | 5 | Gilles Bisson | 19 | |
| Louis-Auguste Bisson | 4 | Louis Bisson Bridge | 6 | |
| Chris Bisson | 3 | Louis-Auguste Bisson | 4 | |
| Auguste-Rosalie Bisson | 3 | Terry Bisson | 7 | |
| Bisson | 2 | Yannick Bisson | 5 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
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