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CHARLES DICKENS
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• CHARLES DICKENS (noun)
The noun CHARLES DICKENS has 1 sense:
1. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)
Familiarity information: CHARLES DICKENS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Charles Dickens; Charles John Huffam Dickens; Dickens
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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