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UNCLE TOM

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Overview

UNCLE TOM (noun)
  The noun UNCLE TOM has 1 sense:

1. a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stoweplay

  Familiarity information: UNCLE TOM used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


UNCLE TOM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A servile black character in a 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))


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