NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Dictionary entry overview: What does National Academy of Sciences mean? • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (noun)
The noun NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES has 1 sense:
1. an honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War
Familiarity information: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (noun)
Meaning:
An honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("National Academy of Sciences" is a kind of...):
academy; honorary society (an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature)
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