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EDISON

Pronunciation (US):

• EDISON (noun)
The noun EDISON has 1 sense:

1. United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)

Familiarity information: EDISON used as a noun is very rare.

• EDISON (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edison; Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Edison

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

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