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PETER PAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Peter Pan" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

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