noun
1. United States actor; son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1882-1942)
• Syn: ↑John Barrymore
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑actor, ↑histrion, ↑player, ↑thespian, ↑role player
2. United States actress; daughter of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1879-1959)
• Syn: ↑Ethel Barrymore
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑actress
3. United States actor; son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1878-1954)
• Syn: ↑Lionel Barrymore
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑actor, ↑histrion, ↑player, ↑thespian, ↑role player
4. United States actress; daughter of John Drew and wife of Maurice Barrymore; mother of Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore (1854-1893)
• Syn: ↑Georgiana Barrymore, ↑Georgiana Emma Barrymore
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑actress
5. United States actor; husband of Georgiana Emma Barrymore and father of Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore (1847-1905)
• Syn: ↑Maurice Barrymore, ↑Herbert Blythe
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑actor, ↑histrion, ↑player, ↑thespian, ↑role player
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Barrymore [Barrymore]
a family of US stage and (later) film actors, Lionel (1878–1954), his sister Ethel (1879–1959), and his brother John (1882–1942). John was the grandfather of the actor Drew Barrymore.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.