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HORATIO ALGER
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• HORATIO ALGER (noun)
The noun HORATIO ALGER has 1 sense:
1. United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty (1832-1899)
Familiarity information: HORATIO ALGER used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty (1832-1899)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Alger; Horatio Alger
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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