Associations to the word «Defoe»

Wiktionary

DEFOE, proper noun. An English patronymic surname​.
DEFOE, proper noun. Daniel Defoe (c. 1659 to 1661 – 1731), English trader, writer, journalist and pamphleteer best known for writing Robinson Crusoe

Dictionary definition

DEFOE, noun. English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope