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LIVY

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Overview

LIVY (noun)
  The noun LIVY has 1 sense:

1. Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


LIVY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Livy; Titus Livius

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)


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