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AGRICOLA

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Overview

AGRICOLA (noun)
  The noun AGRICOLA has 1 sense:

1. Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


AGRICOLA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Agricola; Gnaeus Julius Agricola

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)


 Context examples 


If a speech be well drawn up, I read it with pleasure, by whomsoever it may be made—and probably with much greater, if the production of Mr. Hume or Mr. Robertson, than if the genuine words of Caractacus, Agricola, or Alfred the Great.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)



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