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DOUGLASS
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• DOUGLASS (noun)
The noun DOUGLASS has 1 sense:
1. United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
Familiarity information: DOUGLASS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Douglass; Frederick Douglass
Instance hypernyms:
abolitionist; emancipationist (a reformer who favors abolishing slavery)
Context examples
“CFCs have lifetimes from 50 to 100 years, so they linger in the atmosphere for a very long time,” said Anne Douglass, a fellow atmospheric scientist at Goddard and the study’s co-author.
(First Direct Proof of Ozone Hole Recovery Due to Chemicals Ban, NASA)
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