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PIERRE CORNEILLE
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• PIERRE CORNEILLE (noun)
The noun PIERRE CORNEILLE has 1 sense:
1. French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)
Familiarity information: PIERRE CORNEILLE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Corneille; Pierre Corneille
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
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