SIMON LEGREE

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• SIMON LEGREE (noun)
  The noun SIMON LEGREE has 2 senses:

1. a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees

2. the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Familiarity information: SIMON LEGREE used as a noun is rare.

• SIMON LEGREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Simon Legree; slave driver

Hypernyms ("Simon Legree" is a kind of...):

employer (a person or firm that employs workers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))