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CROESUS

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Overview

CROESUS (noun)
  The noun CROESUS has 2 senses:

1. last king of Lydia (died in 546 BC)play

2. a very wealthy manplay

  Familiarity information: CROESUS used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


CROESUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Last king of Lydia (died in 546 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A very wealthy man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Croesus" is a kind of...):

have; rich person; wealthy person (a person who possesses great material wealth)


 Context examples 


But Julia keeps no diary in these days; never sings Affection's Dirge; eternally quarrels with the old Scotch Croesus, who is a sort of yellow bear with a tanned hide.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What ship comes sailing home from India, and what English lady is this, married to a growling old Scotch Croesus with great flaps of ears?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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