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

1 sense of omar khayyam

Sense 1
Omar Khayyam -- (Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123))
       INSTANCE OF=> poet -- (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)