Verne

[ vurn; French vern ]

noun

1. Jules [joolz, zh, y, l], 1828–1905, French novelist.
2. a male given name, form of Vernon.

Verne

/ vɛrn; vɜːn /

noun

1. VerneJules18281905MFrenchWRITING: science-fiction writer Jules (ʒyl). 1828–1905, French writer, esp of science fiction, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)

Example Sentences

He took the techniques of H. Rider Haggard and Jules Verne and brought them into the 20th century.

From The Daily Beast

My immediate chief was a Lieutenant Colonel Verne L. Bowers, clearly picked out by Eisenhower as a highly talented staff officer.

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I ask Cuco how The Verne Club gets illegal, over-proof alcohol like absinthe through the fine-toothed comb of Argentine customs.

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As we walk to the bar, we pass a picture of Jules Verne hanging on the wall.

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The Verne Club is a hip, steampunky cocktail club in Palermo Soho inspired by, you guessed it, Jules Verne.

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Jules Verne, as we now know, was aggrieved that his countrymen did not recognize him as a scientific writer.

From Project Gutenberg

M. Jules Verne must indeed have gained enough by it and its two connective tales to have acquired an island of his own.

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His geographical notions were delivered with the gravity and conviction of some character in Jules Verne.

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Pez begins to put the geographical notions he has acquired from the books of Jules Verne yet further into practice.

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Jules Verne never imagined anything half so marvellous as their doings.

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