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KLOPSTOCK
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• KLOPSTOCK (noun)
The noun KLOPSTOCK has 1 sense:
1. German poet (1724-1803)
Familiarity information: KLOPSTOCK used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
German poet (1724-1803)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock; Klopstock
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Context examples
One of the letters was directed to Samuel F. Billington, No. 7, The Crescent, Whitby, another to Herr Leutner, Varna; the third was to Coutts & Co., London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth, bankers, Buda-Pesth.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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