PLUTARCH

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

1. Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)

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

• PLUTARCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

biographer (someone who writes an account of a person's life)

 Context examples 

I learned from Werter’s imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)