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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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• WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (noun)
The noun WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS has 1 sense:
1. Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)
Familiarity information: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
W. B. Yeats; William Butler Yeats; Yeats
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
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