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Addison
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Ad·di·son  (d-sn)
A village of northeast Illinois, a residential and industrial suburb of Chicago. Population: 37,000.
Addison, Joseph 1672-1719.
English essayist whose witty and elegant works appeared in The Tatler, founded by Richard Steele in 1709, and The Spectator, founded by Addison and Steele in 1711.
Addi·soni·an (-sn-n) adj.
Addison [ˈædɪsən]
n
(Biographies / Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) M, English, WRITING: essayist, WRITING: poet) Joseph. 1672-1719, English essayist and poet who, with Richard Steele, founded The Spectator (1711-14) and contributed most of its essays, including the de Coverley Papers


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