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HERMAN MELVILLE
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• HERMAN MELVILLE (noun)
The noun HERMAN MELVILLE has 1 sense:
1. United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)
Familiarity information: HERMAN MELVILLE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Herman Melville; Melville
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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