GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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• GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (noun)
  The noun GEORGE BERNARD SHAW has 1 sense:

1. British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)

  Familiarity information: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW used as a noun is very rare.

• GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

G. B. Shaw; George Bernard Shaw; Shaw

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

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

 Context examples 

Chesterton set the whole world laughing with a series of alleged non-partisan essays on the subject, and the whole affair, controversy and controversialists, was well-nigh swept into the pit by a thundering broadside from George Bernard Shaw.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)