Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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name
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a popular 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To convince someone to volunteer, especially to do something which one should do oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fictional character, fictitious character, character
History
The verb is a reference to the title character of the novel.
