MAETERLINCK

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• MAETERLINCK (noun)
  The noun MAETERLINCK has 1 sense:

1. Belgian playwright (1862-1949)

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

• MAETERLINCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belgian playwright (1862-1949)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Count Maurice Maeterlinck; Maeterlinck

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

 Context examples 

The attack upon the Maeterlinck school could not have been made at a more opportune moment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His revenge came when she defended Maeterlinck and he brought into action the carefully-thought-out thesis of "The Shame of the Sun."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Maeterlinck's followers rallied around the standard of mysticism.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a deliberate attack on the mysticism of the Maeterlinck school—an attack from the citadel of positive science upon the wonder- dreamers, but an attack nevertheless that retained much of beauty and wonder of the sort compatible with ascertained fact.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)