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CARLYLE
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• CARLYLE (noun)
The noun CARLYLE has 1 sense:
1. Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881)
Familiarity information: CARLYLE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Carlyle; Thomas Carlyle
Instance hypernyms:
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
Context examples
They arrived because they were Carlyle's battle-scarred giants who will not be kept down.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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