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LIVINGSTONE

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

1. Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)

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

• LIVINGSTONE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

David Livingstone; Livingstone

Instance hypernyms:

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

missionary (someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program)

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