Hoyle

/hɔɪl/
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Other forms: Hoyles

Definitions of Hoyle
  1. noun
    English writer on card games (1672-1769)
    synonyms: Edmond Hoyle
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    example of:
    card player
    someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games
    author, writer
    a person who writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
  2. noun
    an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
    synonyms: Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle
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    astrophysicist
    an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies
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