RICHARDS

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• RICHARDS (noun)
  The noun RICHARDS has 1 sense:

1. English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979)

  Familiarity information: RICHARDS used as a noun is very rare.

• RICHARDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

I. A. Richards; Ivor Armstrong Richards; Richards

Instance hypernyms:

literary critic (a critic of literature)

semanticist; semiotician (a specialist in the study of meaning)

 Context examples 

This morning, being an early riser, he walked in that direction before breakfast and was overtaken by the carriage of Dr. Richards, who explained that he had just been sent for on a most urgent call to Tredannick Wartha.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)