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KIPLING

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Overview

KIPLING (noun)
  The noun KIPLING has 1 sense:

1. English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)play

  Familiarity information: KIPLING used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


KIPLING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Joseph Rudyard Kipling; Kipling; Rudyard Kipling

Instance hypernyms:

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


 Context examples 


And all the while there was running through his head Kipling's line: "And the Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But Swinburne had, and Tennyson, and Kipling, and all the other poets.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he chanced upon Kipling's poems, and was swept away by the lilt and swing and glamour with which familiar things had been invested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had taken the public off its feet, the way Kipling had, that time when he lay near to death and all the mob, animated by a mob-mind thought, began suddenly to read him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was cheered to read in Book News, in a paragraph on the payment of magazine writers, not that Rudyard Kipling received a dollar per word, but that the minimum rate paid by first-class magazines was two cents a word.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Kipling wrote the story.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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