Definition of Defoe

1. Noun. English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731).

Exact synonyms: Daniel Defoe
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Defoe

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Deepfreeze
Deere
Deeside
Deetjen's bodies
Defaka
Defender of the Faith
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Defense Department
Defense Information Systems Agency
Defense Intelligence Agency
Defense Logistics Agency
Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service
Defense Secretary
Defense Technical Information Center
Defoe (current term)
DegP protease
Degos' acanthoma
Degos' disease
Degos' syndrome
Dehio's test
Dehn surgery
Dehong Dai
Dehra Dun
Dehradun
Deichtine
Deighton
Deimos
Deirdre
Deism

Literary usage of Defoe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1870)
"Mes- by Defoe ; his strong inducements to avoid the nager? ... wrote so exactly like Defoe as to deceive ,sager), his library wa.s in so unsettled a state, ..."

2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"Defoe now kept a coach and a private yacht. His post under Government was probably a mere decoy for the work of a mercenary journalist, and we find Defoe r~ ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"His father was a butcher named Foe, and the evolution of the son's name through the various forms of D. Foe, De Foe, Defoe, to Daniel Defoe, ..."

4. Century Readings for a Course in English Literature by James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young (1910)
"DANIEL Defoe (1661-1731) Defoe was the son of a nonconformist butcher, ... Defoe took part in the rebellion of Monmouth, engaged unsuccessfully in trade, ..."

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