BACON as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked
   • usually sliced thin and fried
   Hypernyms(s) bacon is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • cut of pork (what does cut of pork mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • flitch (what does flitch mean?)
   • side of bacon (what does side of bacon mean?)
   • gammon (what does gammon mean?)
   • bacon strip (what does bacon strip mean?)
   • Canadian bacon (what does Canadian bacon mean?)
2. Meaning
   • English statesman and philosopher
   • precursor of British empiricism
   • advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
   Synonym(s)
   • 1st Baron Verulam (what does 1st Baron Verulam mean?)
   • Baron Verulam (what does Baron Verulam mean?)
   • Francis Bacon (what does Francis Bacon mean?)
   • Sir Francis Bacon (what does Sir Francis Bacon mean?)
   • Viscount St. Albans (what does Viscount St. Albans mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Bacon is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • statesman (what does statesman mean?)
   • solon (what does solon mean?)
   • national leader (what does national leader mean?)
   • philosopher (what does philosopher mean?)
3. Meaning
   • English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation
   • first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
   Synonym(s)
   • Roger Bacon (what does Roger Bacon mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Bacon is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • monk (what does monk mean?)
   • monastic (what does monastic mean?)
   • scientist (what does scientist mean?)
   • man of science (what does man of science mean?)