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Enoch Arden

noun
Enoch Ar·​den | \ ¦ēnə̇¦kärdᵊn, -nē¦k-, -kȧd-\

Definition of Enoch Arden

: a person missing and believed dead usually through no fault of his own who subsequently is found alive

History and Etymology for Enoch Arden

after Enoch Arden, hero of the poem Enoch Arden (1864) by Tennyson

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