Stowe

[ stoh ]
/ stoʊ /

noun

Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
a town in N Vermont: ski resort.

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British Dictionary definitions for Stowe (1 of 2)

Stowe1
/ (stəʊ) /

noun

a mansion near Buckingham in N Buckinghamshire: built and decorated in the 17th and 18th centuries by Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, Grinling Gibbons, and William Kent; formerly the seat of the Dukes of Buckingham; fine landscaped gardens: now occupied by a public school

British Dictionary definitions for Stowe (2 of 2)

Stowe2
/ (stəʊ) /

noun

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher. 1811–96, US writer, whose bestselling novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) contributed to the antislavery cause
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