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BEAVERBROOK
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• BEAVERBROOK (noun)
The noun BEAVERBROOK has 1 sense:
1. British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
Familiarity information: BEAVERBROOK used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
1st Baron Beaverbrook; Beaverbrook; William Maxwell Aitken
Instance hypernyms:
pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)
newspaper publisher; publisher (the proprietor of a newspaper)
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