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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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• OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (noun)
The noun OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has 1 sense:
1. United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894)
Familiarity information: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES used as a noun is very rare.
• OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Holmes; Oliver Wendell Holmes
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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