Kleist

Other forms: Kleists

Definitions of Kleist
  1. noun
    German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811)
    synonyms: Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist, Heinrich von Kleist
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    dramatist, dramaturge, playwright
    someone who writes plays
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