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noun • a community of people smaller than a village • the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father • a settlement smaller than a town | ||||||||
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noun • the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life • a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential • deep feeling or emotion • the human embodiment of something • a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s | ||||||||
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