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HORACE WALPOLE
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• HORACE WALPOLE (noun)
The noun HORACE WALPOLE has 1 sense:
1. English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
Familiarity information: HORACE WALPOLE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Fourth Earl of Orford; Horace Walpole; Horatio Walpole; Walpole
Instance hypernyms:
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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