Stevens
Many notable Americans
Stevens is a surname meaning "son of Steven," common in English-speaking countries.
It appears in place names, institutions, and references to notable bearers—the poet Wallace Stevens, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the musician Cat Stevens.
The Stevens family reunion draws over a hundred people each year.
Metered poetic passage
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
aesthetics · stanza · diction · metaphor · meditation · abstraction · Hartford · insurance
Nation's top tribunal
- justiceFair treatment under law
- dissentDisagreement with authority
- jurisprudencePhilosophy governing legal systems
- constitutionalHealth-promoting walk
liberal · judiciary · opinion · retirement · landmark · precedent · civil liberties · court
Study of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- familyRelated people together
- lineageDescent from progenitors
patronymic · descent · kinship · clan · forebears · relatives · bloodline · pedigree
Self-composing musical performer
- folkRegular common people
- conversionAct of changing states
- IslamQuranic monotheistic religion
- acousticRelating to sound
verse
Metered poetic passage
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
philosophy · aesthetics · stanza · diction · metaphor · meditation · abstraction · Hartford · insurance · lyric
Supreme Court
Nation's top tribunal
- justiceFair treatment under law
- dissentDisagreement with authority
- jurisprudencePhilosophy governing legal systems
constitutional · liberal · judiciary · opinion · retirement · landmark · precedent · civil liberties · court · bench
genealogy
Study of family descent
lineage · patronymic · descent · kinship · clan · forebears · relatives · bloodline · pedigree · nomenclature
singer-songwriter
Self-composing musical performer
- folkRegular common people
- conversionAct of changing states
- IslamQuranic monotheistic religion
- Australasian RetailersWoolworths, Kmart, Countdown, New World, Aldi
- Belgian ArtMagritte, Rubens, Van Eyck, Bruegel, Ghent Altarpiece
- East Coast CollegesHarvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown
- Engineering SchoolsMIT, Georgia Tech, Caltech, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon
- fictional narratorsNick Carraway, Ishmael, Holden Caulfield, Scout Finch, Jane Eyre
- ModernistsPicasso, Duchamp, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Stravinsky
- even stevenExactly equal, colloquially
- Steven Spielberg
- Steven Tyler
- Steven Seagal
- Cat StevensFolk-rock singer-songwriter, converted Muslim
- Steven Universe