Charles Dodgson
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- proper noun
- Few people realize that Charles Dodgson was a brilliant mathematician as well as a famous author.
Examples
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Under the name Charles Dodgson, he taught at Oxford and contributed to the field of logic.
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The works of Charles Dodgson have been studied by both literary and mathematical scholars.
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Did Charles Dodgson write poetry?
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Charles Dodgson was a brilliant mathematician!
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Few people realize that Charles Dodgson was a brilliant mathematician as well as a famous author.
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The works of Charles Dodgson have been studied by both literary and mathematical scholars.
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Under the name Charles Dodgson, he taught at Oxford and contributed to the field of logic.
Synonyms
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4.4
The pen name of Charles Dodgson, an English writer who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Surface Forms
Morphology
Charles + Dodgson
This is a proper name: knowing the constituents 'Charles' and 'Dodgson' only signals a person's name but gives no compositional clue that this is the real name of Lewis Carroll. Proper names are referential/arbitrary, so a B1 learner who knows the words would not be able to derive the specific identity, making the expression non-compositional.
Etymology
Charles Dodgson is the real name of the man who wrote the famous 'Alice' books under the name 'Lewis Carroll'. He was a serious Oxford teacher and mathematician who used a different name for his playful stories, so Charles Dodgson is the real person behind 'Lewis Carroll' and the 'Alice' stories.