bessie smith

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   United States blues singer (1894-1937)

   SynonymsSmith

   Broadersinger

Questions about bessie smith

What does bessie smith mean?

bessie smith means "United States blues singer (1894-1937)".

What is another word for bessie smith?

Close synonyms include Smith. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bessie smith a common word?

bessie smith is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.