LONGFELLOW

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

1. United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882)

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

• LONGFELLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Longfellow

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

That Longfellow chap most likely had written countless books of poetry.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Now Longfellow—" she was saying.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There are times when I am light-headed from want of sleep, times when death, with its rest and sleep, is a positive lure to me, times when I am haunted by Longfellow's lines: Of course, this is sheer nonsense.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)