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PAGANINI
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• PAGANINI (noun)
The noun PAGANINI has 1 sense:
1. Italian violinist and composer of music for the violin (1782-1840)
Familiarity information: PAGANINI used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Italian violinist and composer of music for the violin (1782-1840)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Niccolo Paganini; Paganini
Instance hypernyms:
Context examples
This led him to Paganini, and we sat for an hour over a bottle of claret while he told me anecdote after anecdote of that extraordinary man.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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