PIERRE CORNEILLE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)

Synonyms:

Corneille; Pierre Corneille

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

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

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