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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Priest•ley (prēst′lē),USA pronunciation n. J(ohn) B(oyn•ton) (boin′tən, -tn),USA pronunciation 1894–1984, English novelist.- Biographical Joseph, 1733–1804, English chemist, author, and clergyman.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Priestley /ˈpriːstlɪ/ n - J(ohn) B(oynton). 1894–1984, English author. His works include the novels The Good Companions (1929) and Angel Pavement (1930) and the play An Inspector Calls (1946)
- Joseph. 1733–1804, English chemist, political theorist, and clergyman, in the US from 1794. He discovered oxygen (1774) independently of Scheele and isolated and described many other gases
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