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

1 sense of beauvoir

Sense 1
Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir -- (French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986))
       INSTANCE OF=> feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber -- (a supporter of feminism)
       INSTANCE OF=> existentialist, existentialist philosopher, existential philosopher -- (a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable)
       INSTANCE OF=> writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))