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PARALLEL LIVES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Parallel Lives mean?
• PARALLEL LIVES (noun)
The noun PARALLEL LIVES has 1 sense:
1. a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays
Familiarity information: PARALLEL LIVES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
biography; life; life history; life story (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)
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