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RACINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in southeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to the south of Milwaukee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Racine" is a part of...):
Badger State; WI; Wis.; Wisc.; Wisconsin (a midwestern state in north central United States)
Sense 2
Meaning:
French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)
Synonyms:
Jean Baptiste Racine; Jean Racine; Racine
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
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