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SMUTS

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Overview

SMUTS (noun)
  The noun SMUTS has 1 sense:

1. South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


SMUTS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jan Christian Smuts; Smuts

Instance hypernyms:

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)


 Context examples 


He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A kingdom of eukaryotic, heterotrophic organisms that live as saprobes or parasites, including mushrooms, yeasts, smuts, molds, etc. They reproduce either sexually or asexually, and have life cycles that range from simple to complex.

(Fungus, NCI Thesaurus)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"His bark is worse than his bite." (English proverb)

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