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WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER

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Overview

WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER (noun)
  The noun WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER has 1 sense:

1. United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)play

  Familiarity information: WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

O. Henry; Porter; William Sydney Porter

Instance hypernyms:

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


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