Associations to the word «Locke»

Wiktionary

LOCKE, proper noun. An English surname​.
LOCKE, proper noun. John Locke (1632 – 1704); an influential English philosopher of the Enlightenment and social contract theorist.
LOCKE, noun. Archaic spelling of lock.

Dictionary definition

LOCKE, noun. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704).

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky