SAMUEL MORSE

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Meaning:

United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)

Synonyms:

Morse; Samuel F. B. Morse; Samuel Finley Breese Morse; Samuel Morse

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

painter (an artist who paints)

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