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s | dickensian |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective dickensian is

of or pertaining to or, especially, his writings.

As a noun dickensian is

a person who studies or admires the works of (charles dickens).

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

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    dickensian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to or, especially, his writings.
  • Reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens' writings, such as poverty and social injustice and other aspects of Victorian England.
  • * 1987 , Cecil D Eby, The road to Armageddon
    • As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.
  • * 2001 , Tim Moore, Frost on My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer
    • By the time I pressed a huge and over-polished brass bell I'd devolved into a shifty-eyed, cinder-cheeked Dickensian urchin...
  • * 2004 , William Sloane Coffin, A Passion for the Possible: A Message to U.S. Churches
    • ...a Dickensian world of wretched excess and wretched despair...

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who studies or admires the works of (Charles Dickens).