SHERWOOD

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

1. United States playwright (1896-1955)

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

• SHERWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States playwright (1896-1955)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Robert Emmet Sherwood; Sherwood

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

 Context examples 

Jo wrote no more sensational stories, deciding that the money did not pay for her share of the sensation, but going to the other extreme, as is the way with people of her stamp, she took a course of Mrs. Sherwood, Miss Edgeworth, and Hannah More, and then produced a tale which might have been more properly called an essay or a sermon, so intensely moral was it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)