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SCHOOLCRAFT

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Overview

SCHOOLCRAFT (noun)
  The noun SCHOOLCRAFT has 1 sense:

1. United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


SCHOOLCRAFT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft; Schoolcraft

Instance hypernyms:

ethnologist (an anthropologist who studies ethnology)

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

geologist (a specialist in geology)


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