fuller

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910)
noun United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)
noun a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living

From full.

Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
[455] Fuller's "Worthies of Hereford." — Shakespeare's family, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
Thomas Fuller's Good Thoughts in Bad Times. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Melville W. Fuller, Melville Weston Fuller

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