Definitions for Otis

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Otis O·tis

Spelling: [oh-tis]

IPA: /ˈoʊ tɪs/

Otis is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in Otis (iost).

Definitions for Otis

noun

1. Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
2. Harrison Gray, 1837–1917, U.S. army officer and newspaper publisher.
3. James, 1725–83, American lawyer and public official who is supposed to have first used the phrase “Taxation without representation” (brother of Mercy Otis Warren).
4. a male given name.

Examples for Otis

Otis Moss, Jr., the noted African-American civil rights leader and confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., concurred.

The first Otis elevators were moved by steam or hydraulic power.

He was also connected with the banking firm of Wicks, Otis & Brownell.

Otis says he was wearing a tan jacket similar to one described by witnesses.

But not until they had sent for Otis H. Mann, and put the case strongly to him.

There is much to relieve the remark of Mayor Otis from exaggeration.

This is Otis's great service to the cause of the Revolution.

I meet Otis J. the night he arrives at “The Castle,” a West Harlem halfway house for newly-released convicts.

Identity issues seem to have dogged Otis since his troubles began.

Otis, who tells me he was called “Saladin” on the inside, has taken an almost tragically circuitous route in getting here.