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THOREAU
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• THOREAU (noun)
The noun THOREAU has 1 sense:
1. United States writer and social critic (1817-1862)
Familiarity information: THOREAU used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States writer and social critic (1817-1862)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Henry David Thoreau; Thoreau
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Derivation:
Thoreauvian (relating to or like or in the manner of Henry David Thoreau)
Context examples
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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