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FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND

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FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND (noun)
  The noun FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND has 1 sense:

1. English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906)play

  Familiarity information: FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Frederic William Maitland; Maitland

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)


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