BLAKE

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• BLAKE (noun)
  The noun BLAKE has 1 sense:

1. visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)

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

• BLAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Blake; William Blake

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

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

 Context examples 

Some twenty well-known prize-fighters, including my friend Bill Warr, Black Richmond, Maddox, The Pride of Westminster, Tom Belcher, Paddington Jones, Tough Tom Blake, Symonds the ruffian, Tyne the tailor, and others, were stationed in the outer ring as beaters.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)