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LOWELL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)
Synonyms:
Abbott Lawrence Lowell; Lowell
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States poet (1874-1925)
Synonyms:
Amy Lowell; Lowell
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916)
Synonyms:
Lowell; Percival Lowell
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States poet (1917-1977)
Synonyms:
Lowell; Robert Lowell; Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr.
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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