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RILEY
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• RILEY (noun)
The noun RILEY has 1 sense:
1. United States poet (1849-1916)
Familiarity information: RILEY used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States poet (1849-1916)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
James Whitcomb Riley; Riley
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Context examples
"You should 'a' ben up at Riley's barn last night," Jim announced inconsequently.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The girls of the Lotus Club wondered what had become of him and worried Jim with questions, and some of the fellows who put on the glove at Riley's were glad that Martin came no more.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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"Some work, others merely daydream." (Corsican proverb)