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XENOPHON

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Overview

XENOPHON (noun)
  The noun XENOPHON has 1 sense:

1. Greek general and historian; student of Socrates (430-355 BC)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


XENOPHON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Greek general and historian; student of Socrates (430-355 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)


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