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WILLIAM WYMARK JACOBS
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• WILLIAM WYMARK JACOBS (noun)
The noun WILLIAM WYMARK JACOBS has 1 sense:
1. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
Familiarity information: WILLIAM WYMARK JACOBS used as a noun is very rare.
• WILLIAM WYMARK JACOBS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Jacobs; W. W. Jacobs; William Wymark Jacobs
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
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