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TOYNBEE

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Overview

TOYNBEE (noun)
  The noun TOYNBEE has 1 sense:

1. English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


TOYNBEE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arnold Joseph Toynbee; Arnold Toynbee; Toynbee

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)


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