MATTHEW ARNOLD

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• MATTHEW ARNOLD (noun)
  The noun MATTHEW ARNOLD has 1 sense:

1. English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

  Familiarity information: MATTHEW ARNOLD used as a noun is very rare.

• MATTHEW ARNOLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arnold; Matthew Arnold

Instance hypernyms:

literary critic (a critic of literature)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

For a sonnet on Stevenson he managed to wring two dollars out of a Boston editor who was running a magazine with a Matthew Arnold taste and a penny- dreadful purse.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)