noun
1. Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
• Syn: ↑Robert Owen
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑industrialist, ↑reformer, ↑reformist, ↑crusader, ↑social reformer, ↑meliorist
2. English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)
• Syn: ↑Sir Richard Owen
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑paleontologist, ↑palaeontologist, ↑fossilist, ↑comparative anatomist
Useful english dictionary. 2012.