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ROBERT OWEN

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Overview

ROBERT OWEN (noun)
  The noun ROBERT OWEN has 1 sense:

1. Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)play

  Familiarity information: ROBERT OWEN used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ROBERT OWEN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Owen; Robert Owen

Instance hypernyms:

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)


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