commodore vanderbilt

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   United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)

   SynonymsVanderbiltCornelius Vanderbilt

   Broaderfinancierphilanthropist

Questions about commodore vanderbilt

What does commodore vanderbilt mean?

commodore vanderbilt means "United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)".

What is another word for commodore vanderbilt?

Close synonyms include Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt. 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 commodore vanderbilt a common word?

commodore vanderbilt 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.