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

1 sense of pliny the elder

Sense 1
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))