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TENNYSON

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Overview

TENNYSON (noun)
  The noun TENNYSON has 1 sense:

1. Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


TENNYSON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alfred Lord Tennyson; Alfred Tennyson; First Baron Tennyson; Tennyson

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))


 Context examples 


But Swinburne had, and Tennyson, and Kipling, and all the other poets.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She compared Tennyson, and Browning, and her favorite prose masters with him, and to his hopeless discredit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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