Adrian Room (1933–2010)
Autor/a de Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable
Sobre l'autor
Adrian Room was a noted toponymist and onomastician. The author of more than 50 reference books about words and names, he lived in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.
Obres de Adrian Room
Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for over 5000 Natural Features, Countries, Capitals,… (1974) 46 exemplars
Tuttle Dictionary of Dedications: Over 1500 Dedications - From Jane Austen to Kurt Vonnegut (Tuttle Reference Library) (1992) 20 exemplars
African placenames : origins and meanings of the names for over 2000 natural features, towns, cities, provinces, and… (1994) 13 exemplars
The Naming of Animals: An Appellative Reference to Domestic, Work and Show Animals Real and Fictional (1993) 9 exemplars
Nicknames of Places: Origins And Meanings of the Alternate And Secondary Names, Sobriquets, Titles, Epithets And ... (2006) 8 exemplars
Room's Classical Dictionary: The Origins of the Names of Characters in Classical Mythology (1983) 7 exemplars
A Dictionary of Art Titles: The Origins of the Names and Titles of 3,000 Works of Art (2000) 5 exemplars
Ntc's Classical Dictionary: The Origins of the Names of Characters in Classical Mythology (Ntc Mythology Books) (1990) 5 exemplars
A Dictionary of Music Titles: The Origins of the Names and Titles of 3,500 Musical Compositions (2000) 5 exemplars
Placenames of France: Over 4,000 Towns, Villages, Natural Features, Regions and Departments (2004) 4 exemplars
Corporate Eponymy: A Biographical Dictionary of the Persons Behind the Names of Major American, British, European and… (1992) 3 exemplars
Literally Entitled: A Dictionary of the Origins of the Titles of More Than 1300 Major Literary Works of the Nineteenth… (1996) 3 exemplars
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications 3 exemplars
Placenames of Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Origins and Meanings of the Names for over 2000 Natural Features,… (1996) 3 exemplars
Dictionary of Foreign Words 1 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Room, Adrian
- Data de naixement
- 1933-09-27
- Data de defunció
- 2010
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Melksham, Wiltshire, England
- Organitzacions
- Royal Geographic Society (Fellow)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 67
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 1,064
- Popularitat
- #24,197
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 8
- ISBN
- 135
- Llengües
- 1