noun
1. United States actress noted for her performances in Broadway plays (1893-1974)
• Syn: ↑Katherine Cornell
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑actress
2. United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)
• Syn: ↑Ezra Cornell
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑businessman, ↑man of affairs, ↑philanthropist, ↑altruist
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/kawr nel"/, n.
1. Ezra, 1809-74, U.S. capitalist and philanthropist.
2. Katharine, 1898-1974, U.S. actress.
3. a male given name.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.