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

2 senses of pliny

Sense 1
Pliny, Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus -- (Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113))
       INSTANCE OF=> writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2
Pliny, Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus -- (Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79))
       INSTANCE OF=> writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))