Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jean_baptiste_racine

1 sense of jean baptiste racine

Sense 1
Racine, Jean Racine, Jean Baptiste Racine -- (French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699))
       INSTANCE OF=> dramatist, playwright -- (someone who writes plays)
       INSTANCE OF=> poet -- (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))