Definitions for Tom Sawyer
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1. Tom Sawyernoun

   the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain

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1. Tom Sawyerverb

   To convince someone to volunteer, especially to do someone which one should do oneself.

2. Tom Sawyernoun

   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a popular 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River.

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1. Tom Sawyer

   Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896). Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse Hill, and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. It is set in the 1840s in the Mississippi.

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1. tom sawyer

   Tom Sawyer is a fictional character and the protagonist in Mark Twain's novels 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' (1876) and 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884). Tom Sawyer is a mischievous and imaginative boy who lives in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, along the Mississippi River. His adventures often involve his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, and are well known for their representation of 19th-century American childhood and exploration of themes such as morality, society, and the loss of innocence.

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1. Tom Sawyer

   Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective. Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse Hill, and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. The fictional character's name may have been derived from a joyus and flamboyant fireman named Tom Sawyer whom Twain was acquainted with in San Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter at the San Francisco Call. Twain used to listen to Sawyer tell stories of his youth, "Sam, he would listen to these pranks of mine with great interest and he'd occasionally take 'em down in his notebook. One day he says to me: ‘I am going to put you between the covers of a book some of these days, Tom.’ ‘Go ahead, Sam,’ I said, ‘but don’t disgrace my name.’" Twain himself said the character sprang from three people, later identified as: John B. Briggs, William Bowen and Twain; however Twain later changed his story saying Sawyer was fully formed solely from his imagination, but as Robert Graysmith says, "The great appropriator liked to pretend his characters sprang fully grown from his fertile mind."

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Tom Sawyer in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Tom Sawyer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Tom Sawyer in a Sentence

1. Sam Simon:

   The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer funeral because they all know I'm sick, i am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff. The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of. And I enjoy this.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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3. ^ Wikipedia
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