Joseph Rudyard Kipling

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An English writer and poet who wrote The Jungle Book and Kim

proper noun

: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 for his contributions to English literature.

Examples

The famous author Joseph Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book'.
Did you know Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in India?
Many readers first encounter 'The Jungle Book' without realizing it was written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling.
The poems of Joseph Rudyard Kipling are still read and appreciated around the world.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 for his contributions to English literature.
Many readers first encounter 'The Jungle Book' without realizing it was written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling.
The poems of Joseph Rudyard Kipling are still read and appreciated around the world.

Synonyms

Rudyard Kipling

vsJoseph Rudyard Kipling

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An English writer and poet born in India who wrote famous children's stories like The Jungle Book

uses the full formal given name rather than the shorter familiar form

Surface Forms

Joseph Rudyard Kipling main

Morphology

Joseph + Rudyard + Kipling

This is a proper name referring to a specific historical author; the individual name-words (Joseph, Rudyard, Kipling) are referential labels rather than meaningful compositional parts, so knowing them does not let a learner infer that the phrase names an English author or his biographical details. Proper nouns are conventionally opaque across languages and must be learned as a whole or identified from context.

Etymology

Joseph Rudyard Kipling comes from a family story: his parents had visited a small lake called Rudyard, and they gave him that as a middle name. He was born in India and grew up to be an English 'author' who wrote famous books like 'The Jungle Book', so today the name is the one we use for that writer.