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SYMONDS
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• SYMONDS (noun)
The noun SYMONDS has 1 sense:
1. English writer (1840-1893)
Familiarity information: SYMONDS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
English writer (1840-1893)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
John Addington Symonds; Symonds
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples
Some twenty well-known prize-fighters, including my friend Bill Warr, Black Richmond, Maddox, The Pride of Westminster, Tom Belcher, Paddington Jones, Tough Tom Blake, Symonds the ruffian, Tyne the tailor, and others, were stationed in the outer ring as beaters.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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