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DUMAS
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• DUMAS (noun)
The noun DUMAS has 1 sense:
1. French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870)
Familiarity information: DUMAS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Alexandre Dumas; Dumas
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples
It was asserted that he had never written it, that the magazine had faked it very clumsily, or that Martin Eden was emulating the elder Dumas and at the height of success was hiring his writing done for him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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