Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (countable, sometimes capitalized) A publication containing biographies of well-known or important people.
- (countable) A list of notable, famous, or upper-class people.
- (uncountable) Collectively, the elite class.
- (countable) A person appearing in a Who's Who publication.
- (countable) A celebrity or famous person, someone likely to be in such a publication.
- (uncountable, idiomatic) The identities of specific people, understood in terms of such distinguishing characteristics as their backgrounds, prominence, achievements, jobs, etc., as a basis for comparing them and especially as a basis for ranking them within a social group.
Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: who's, who
Samankaltaisia sanoja
Esimerkit
- Nearly every country has now a Who's Who, which gives a brief outline of the life and work of living men who have distinguished themselves in various ways.
- In the growing who's who of Negro educators, the name of Cleo W. Blackburn, 45, ranks high.
- Mr. Clinton's candidates, a veritable who's who of New York Democrats, include Carol Bellamy, the former City Council president; Sandra Feldman, head of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City, and Representative Gary L. Ackerman of Queens.
- With glittering names from a who's who of Australian art on her walls she would laugh: "Not just glittering names, glittering examples of their work, too."
- Sixty-one From Wisconsin Make Debut as Who's Whos [headline]:
- Mrs. Falconer cannot well avoid asking you to some of her entertainments, and it will be pleasant to you to know who's who beforehand.
- "Milly, it's true," she said, to be exact, "has no natural sense of social values, doesn't in the least understand our differences or know who's who or what's what."
- "I'll learn 'im to insult a respectable British tradesman. I'll show him who's who."
- Readers will conjure up many a conjecture over who's who in this literary gallery.
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