KELLER

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• KELLER (noun)
  The noun KELLER has 1 sense:

1. United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968)

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

• KELLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Helen Adams Keller; Helen Keller; Keller

Instance hypernyms:

lecturer (someone who lectures professionally)

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

 Context examples 

A team led by Dr. Andreas Keller of Rockefeller University set out to determine the resolution of the human olfactory system by testing how well humans could distinguish mixes of odors.

(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)