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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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Overview

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (noun)
  The noun WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS has 1 sense:

1. Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)play

  Familiarity information: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

W. B. Yeats; William Butler Yeats; Yeats

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

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


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