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Meaning of Dunciad | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.

Examples

“The poem, therefore, celebrating him, was properly and absolutely a Dunciad; which though now unhappily lost, yet is its nature sufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforesaid.”
“Such damning fame as Dunciads only give / Could bid your lines beyond a morning live.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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