Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English homepage

Sinclair, Upton
     
Sinclair, Upton
(1878-1968) a US writer who wrote The Jungle, a novel about the meat-packing industry in Chicago, which showed that the workers were badly treated and the food was not clean and was likely to cause disease
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Dictionary pictures of the day
Do you know what each of these is called?
What is the word for picture 1? What is the word for picture 2? What is the word for picture 3? What is the word for picture 4?
Click on any of the pictures above to find out what it is called.

Explore our topic dictionary

Browse the dictionary