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HUBBARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hubbard mean? 

HUBBARD (noun)
  The noun HUBBARD has 2 senses:

1. a United States writer of science fiction and founder of Scientology (1911-1986)play

2. a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high)play

  Familiarity information: HUBBARD used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HUBBARD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A United States writer of science fiction and founder of Scientology (1911-1986)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hubbard; L. Ron Hubbard

Instance hypernyms:

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


Sense 2

Meaning:

A mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Hubbard; Mount Hubbard

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Holonyms ("Hubbard" is a part of...):

AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)

Coast Mountains; Coast Range (a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California)


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