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EMERSON

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Overview

EMERSON (noun)
  The noun EMERSON has 1 sense:

1. United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


EMERSON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instance hypernyms:

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


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