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JEAN COCTEAU
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• JEAN COCTEAU (noun)
The noun JEAN COCTEAU has 1 sense:
1. French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)
Familiarity information: JEAN COCTEAU used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Cocteau; Jean Cocteau
Instance hypernyms:
film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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