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WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER
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• WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER (noun)
The noun WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER has 1 sense:
1. United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)
Familiarity information: WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER used as a noun is very rare.
• WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
O. Henry; Porter; William Sydney Porter
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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