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LAKE POETS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("lake poets" is a kind of...):

school (a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers)

art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)

Meronyms (members of "lake poets"):

Coleridge; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English romantic poet (1772-1834))

Robert Southey; Southey (English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843))

William Wordsworth; Wordsworth (a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850))

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