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LOWELL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)

Synonyms:

Abbott Lawrence Lowell; Lowell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States poet (1874-1925)

Synonyms:

Amy Lowell; Lowell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916)

Synonyms:

Lowell; Percival Lowell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States poet (1917-1977)

Synonyms:

Lowell; Robert Lowell; Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

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