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STRACHEY
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• STRACHEY (noun)
The noun STRACHEY has 1 sense:
1. English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932)
Familiarity information: STRACHEY used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Giles Lytton Strachey; Lytton Strachey; Strachey
Instance hypernyms:
biographer (someone who writes an account of a person's life)
Holonyms ("Strachey" is a member of...):
Bloomsbury Group (an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles)
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