ELIOT

Eliot, George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans

(noun) British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880)

Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot

(noun) British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

9 May 2025

RIGHT

(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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