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DUNCAN GRANT

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DUNCAN GRANT (noun)
  The noun DUNCAN GRANT has 1 sense:

1. Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)play

  Familiarity information: DUNCAN GRANT used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


DUNCAN GRANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Duncan Grant; Duncan James Corrow Grant; Grant

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Holonyms ("Duncan Grant" is a member of...):

Bloomsbury Group (an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles)


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