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HENRY JAMES

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Overview

HENRY JAMES (noun)
  The noun HENRY JAMES has 1 sense:

1. writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)play

  Familiarity information: HENRY JAMES used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


HENRY JAMES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry James; James

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))


 Context examples 


They appreciated or sneered at the morning editorials, jumped from labor conditions in New Zealand to Henry James and Brander Matthews, passed on to the German designs in the Far East and the economic aspect of the Yellow Peril, wrangled over the German elections and Bebel's last speech, and settled down to local politics, the latest plans and scandals in the union labor party administration, and the wires that were pulled to bring about the Coast Seamen's strike.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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