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COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON
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• COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON (noun)
The noun COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON has 1 sense:
1. United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)
Familiarity information: COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON used as a noun is very rare.
• COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Collis Potter Huntington; Huntington
Instance hypernyms:
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
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