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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:
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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