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WORDSWORTH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)

Synonyms:

William Wordsworth; Wordsworth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Wordsworth" is a member of...):

lake poets (English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it)

Derivation:

Wordsworthian (in the manner of William Wordsworth)

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