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GEISEL

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Overview

GEISEL (noun)
  The noun GEISEL has 1 sense:

1. United States writer of children's books (1904-1991)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


GEISEL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer of children's books (1904-1991)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dr. Seuss; Geisel; Theodor Seuss Geisel

Instance hypernyms:

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


 Context examples 


The center is affiliated with The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.

(Norris Cotton Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)



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