TALBOT

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• TALBOT (noun)
  The noun TALBOT has 1 sense:

1. English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)

  Familiarity information: TALBOT used as a noun is very rare.

• TALBOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fox Talbot; Talbot; William Henry Fox Talbot

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

lensman; photographer (someone who takes photographs professionally)

 Context examples 

Sixty or seventy of them, large and small, smooth and shaggy—deer-hound, boar-hound, blood-hound, wolf-hound, mastiff, alaun, talbot, lurcher, terrier, spaniel—snapping, yelling and whining, with score of lolling tongues and waving tails, came surging down the narrow lane which leads from the Twynham kennels to the bank of Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)