OMAR KHAYYAM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

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

mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)

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

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