BLOOMSBURY GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bloomsbury Group mean? 

• BLOOMSBURY GROUP (noun)
  The noun BLOOMSBURY GROUP has 1 sense:

1. an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles

  Familiarity information: BLOOMSBURY GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOMSBURY GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Bloomsbury Group" is a kind of...):

camp; clique; coterie; ingroup; inner circle; pack (an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose)

Meronyms (members of "Bloomsbury Group"):

Bell; Vanessa Bell; Vanessa Stephen (English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961))

Fry; Roger Eliot Fry; Roger Fry (English painter and art critic (1866-1934))

Duncan Grant; Duncan James Corrow Grant; Grant (Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978))

John Maynard Keynes; Keynes (English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946))

Giles Lytton Strachey; Lytton Strachey; Strachey (English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932))

Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf; Virginia Woolf; Woolf (English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941))