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Browning

/ˈbraʊnɪŋ/
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Other forms: Brownings

Definitions of Browning
  1. noun
    English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
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    poet
    a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
  2. noun
    English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
    synonyms: Robert Browning
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    poet
    a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
  3. noun
    United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
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    artificer, discoverer, inventor
    someone who is the first to think of or make something
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