FLETCHER

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• FLETCHER (noun)
  The noun FLETCHER has 1 sense:

1. prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)

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

• FLETCHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fletcher; John Fletcher

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

 Context examples 

Here is a friend of mine, Sam Fletcher, has got one to sell that would suit anybody.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He had invited not only the chief fighting-men of the day, but also those men of fashion who were most interested in the ring: Mr. Fletcher Reid, Lord Say and Sele, Sir Lothian Hume, Sir John Lade, Colonel Montgomery, Sir Thomas Apreece, the Hon. Berkeley Craven, and many more.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fletcher and I mean to get a house in Leicestershire, against the next season.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)