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RUDYARD KIPLING
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• RUDYARD KIPLING (noun)
The noun RUDYARD KIPLING has 1 sense:
1. English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)
Familiarity information: RUDYARD KIPLING used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Joseph Rudyard Kipling; Kipling; Rudyard Kipling
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples
He was cheered to read in Book News, in a paragraph on the payment of magazine writers, not that Rudyard Kipling received a dollar per word, but that the minimum rate paid by first-class magazines was two cents a word.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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