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CHARLES DICKENS

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Overview

CHARLES DICKENS (noun)
  The noun CHARLES DICKENS has 1 sense:

1. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)play

  Familiarity information: CHARLES DICKENS used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


CHARLES DICKENS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Charles Dickens; Charles John Huffam Dickens; Dickens

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))


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