jacobs

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
  2. noun United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)
  3. noun Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)

Synonyms

W. W. Jacobs, William Wymark Jacobs

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