Omar Khayyam

Definitions of Omar Khayyam

noun
Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)

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astronomer, stargazer, uranologist
a physicist who studies astronomy

mathematician
a person skilled in mathematics

poet
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

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