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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats