Arnold Toynbee

Definitions of Arnold Toynbee
  1. noun
    English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)
    synonyms: Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Toynbee
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    historian, historiographer
    a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
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