Noun has 3 senses

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




• bacon(n = noun.person) 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(n = noun.person) 1st baron verulam, baron verulam, francis bacon, sir francis bacon, viscount st. albans - English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626);