tom sawyer

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   the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about tom sawyer

What does tom sawyer mean?

tom sawyer means "the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain".

Is tom sawyer a common word?

tom sawyer 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.