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PAUL MCCARTNEY

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PAUL MCCARTNEY (noun)
  The noun PAUL MCCARTNEY has 1 sense:

1. English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)play

  Familiarity information: PAUL MCCARTNEY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


PAUL MCCARTNEY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

McCartney; Paul McCartney; Sir James Paul McCartney

Instance hypernyms:

rock star (a famous singer of rock music)

ballad maker; songster; songwriter (a composer of words or music for popular songs)

Holonyms ("Paul McCartney" is a member of...):

Beatles (a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of them written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon))


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