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OMAR KHAYYAM
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• OMAR KHAYYAM (noun)
The noun OMAR KHAYYAM has 1 sense:
1. Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)
Familiarity information: OMAR KHAYYAM used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
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