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RUDYARD KIPLING

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RUDYARD KIPLING (noun)
  The noun RUDYARD KIPLING has 1 sense:

1. English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)play

  Familiarity information: RUDYARD KIPLING used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


RUDYARD KIPLING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Joseph Rudyard Kipling; Kipling; Rudyard Kipling

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))


 Context examples 


He was cheered to read in Book News, in a paragraph on the payment of magazine writers, not that Rudyard Kipling received a dollar per word, but that the minimum rate paid by first-class magazines was two cents a word.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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