TOYNBEE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)

Synonyms:

Arnold Joseph Toynbee; Arnold Toynbee; Toynbee

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

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