wright

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
  2. noun United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960)
  3. noun United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912)

Etymology

From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta (“worker, maker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō (as in *wurkijan). Cognate with wrought, dated Dutch wrecht, work.

In classic literature

Synonyms

Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine

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