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YEATS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)
Synonyms:
W. B. Yeats; William Butler Yeats; Yeats
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))
Derivation:
Yeatsian (in the manner of William Butler Yeats)