say it: AN-dur-suhn
anderson is a noun meaning "United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941)". It carries 5 recorded senses.
United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941)
United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-)
United States dramatist (1888-1959)
United States contralto noted for her performance of spirituals (1902-1993)
United States physicist who discovered antimatter in the form of an antielectron that is called the positron (1905-1991)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anderson come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.