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LIVERMORE

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Overview

LIVERMORE (noun)
  The noun LIVERMORE has 1 sense:

1. United States suffragist (1820-1905)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


LIVERMORE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States suffragist (1820-1905)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Livermore; Mary Ashton Rice Livermore

Instance hypernyms:

suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))


 Context examples 


"The strains of resistant E. coli found in food, were almost entirely different from the types found in human faeces, sewage and bloodstream infections", said Dr. Livermore.

(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)

We wanted to find out how these superbugs are spread — and whether there is a cross-over from the food chain to humans said lead author Professor David Livermore of the University of East Anglia's medical school.

(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)



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