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SYMONDS

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Overview

SYMONDS (noun)
  The noun SYMONDS has 1 sense:

1. English writer (1840-1893)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


SYMONDS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English writer (1840-1893)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Addington Symonds; Symonds

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))


 Context examples 


Some twenty well-known prize-fighters, including my friend Bill Warr, Black Richmond, Maddox, The Pride of Westminster, Tom Belcher, Paddington Jones, Tough Tom Blake, Symonds the ruffian, Tyne the tailor, and others, were stationed in the outer ring as beaters.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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