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HOYLE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

English writer on card games (1672-1769)

Synonyms:

Edmond Hoyle; Hoyle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

card player (someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games)

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

An English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)

Synonyms:

Fred Hoyle; Hoyle; Sir Fred Hoyle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

astrophysicist (an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies)

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