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WILLARD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870)

Synonyms:

Emma Hart Willard; Willard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898)

Synonyms:

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard; Willard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

dry; prohibitionist (a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages)

suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))

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