locke

n. John Locke was a famous English thinker who wrote about government and how people learn.

n. Refers to John Locke (1632–1704), the English philosopher and physician widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

“In history class, we studied how Locke influenced the American Constitution.”

“Locke argued that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth, a concept that fundamentally challenged the prevailing theories of innate ideas.”

Academic

n. An old way of spelling 'lock' that you might see in very old books.

n. An archaic orthographic variant of 'lock', referring to a fastening device or a curl of hair.

“The old poem used the spelling 'locke' to describe a piece of hair.”

“Scholars examining the seventeenth-century manuscript noted the scribe's consistent use of 'locke' when referring to the mechanism of the chest.”

Archaic