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IBSEN

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Overview

IBSEN (noun)
  The noun IBSEN has 1 sense:

1. realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


IBSEN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henrik Ibsen; Henrik Johan Ibsen; Ibsen

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

Ibsenian (of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen)


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