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WHITMAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States frontier missionary who established a post in Oregon where Christianity and schooling and medicine were available to Native Americans (1802-1847)

Synonyms:

Marcus Whitman; Whitman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

missionary (someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States poet who celebrated the greatness of America (1819-1892)

Synonyms:

Walt Whitman; Whitman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

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

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