Nouns denoting people
- superior
- one of greater rank or station or quality
- Damocles
- the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)
- Essene
- a member of an ascetic Jewish sect around the time of Jesus
- transient
- one who stays for only a short time
- Upton Beall Sinclair
- United States writer whose novels argued for social reform (1878-1968)
- thane
- a man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land)
- hairsplitter
- a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions
- showman
- a person skilled at making effective presentations
- Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer
- United States journalist who wrote a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn (1870-1951)
- critic
- someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments
- lad
- a boy or man
- wooer
- a man who courts a woman
- mill-girl
- a girl who works in a mill
- brakeman
- a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes
- prize winner
- the winner of a lottery
- Goth
- one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries
- golf pro
- someone who earns a living by playing or teaching golf
- flack
- a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer
- flamen
- a priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome
- William Averell Harriman
- United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)
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