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KIT CARSON
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• KIT CARSON (noun)
The noun KIT CARSON has 1 sense:
1. United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868)
Familiarity information: KIT CARSON used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Carson; Christopher Carson; Kit Carson
Instance hypernyms:
backwoodsman; frontiersman; mountain man (a man who lives on the frontier)
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