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• STERNE (noun)
The noun STERNE has 1 sense:
1. English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)
Familiarity information: STERNE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Laurence Sterne; Sterne
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples
And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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