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ISHERWOOD
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• ISHERWOOD (noun)
The noun ISHERWOOD has 1 sense:
1. United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986)
Familiarity information: ISHERWOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Christopher Isherwood; Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood; Isherwood
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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