noun
1. English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902)
• Syn: ↑Butler
2. English poet (1612-1680)
• Syn: ↑Butler
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑poet
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(1835–1902) an English writer who escaped from his extremely religious English family to become a farmer in New Zealand. He wrote about this experience in his novel The Way of All Flesh (1903). His other famous book, ↑Erewhon, makes fun of religion and other human ideas.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.