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BLOOMSBURY GROUP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Bloomsbury Group" is a kind of...):
camp; clique; coterie; ingroup; inner circle; pack (an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose)
Meronyms (members of "Bloomsbury Group"):
Bell; Vanessa Bell; Vanessa Stephen (English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961))
Fry; Roger Eliot Fry; Roger Fry (English painter and art critic (1866-1934))
Duncan Grant; Duncan James Corrow Grant; Grant (Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978))
John Maynard Keynes; Keynes (English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946))
Giles Lytton Strachey; Lytton Strachey; Strachey (English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932))
Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf; Virginia Woolf; Woolf (English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941))
