captain horatio hornblower

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   a fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester

   SynonymsHoratio Hornblower

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about captain horatio hornblower

What does captain horatio hornblower mean?

captain horatio hornblower means "a fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester".

What is another word for captain horatio hornblower?

Close synonyms include Horatio Hornblower. 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 captain horatio hornblower a common word?

captain horatio hornblower 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.