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NOBELIST

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Overview

NOBELIST (noun)
  The noun NOBELIST has 1 sense:

1. winner of a Nobel prizeplay

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


English dictionary: Word details


NOBELIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Winner of a Nobel prize

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Nobel Laureate; Nobelist

Hypernyms ("Nobelist" is a kind of...):

laureate (someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath)

Derivation:

Nobel prize (an annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace)


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