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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
Synonyms:
Eliot; T. S. Eliot; Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))