bacon   (Sound)

The noun bacon has 3 senses

• bacon -- (back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried)


• Bacon, Roger Bacon -- (English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292))


• Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans -- (English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626))