1. Defoe - Noun
2. Defoe - Proper noun
English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)
Source: WordNetAble to engage with the present and speak to the future, Defoe is the ideal writer. Source: Internet
Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 As many as 545 titles have been ascribed to Defoe, ranging from satirical poems, political and religious pamphlets, and volumes. Source: Internet
Bradley was a regular Sunderland mascot and he held the hand of his idol Defoe. Source: Internet
By 1708 other parishes in Sussex were charged rates to alleviate poverty in Brighton, and Daniel Defoe wrote that the expected £8,000 cost of providing sea defences was "more than the whole town was worth". Source: Internet
Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703–1705 became so supine in 1706. Source: Internet
"Crusoe" may have been taken from Timothy Cruso, a classmate of Defoe's who had written guide books, including God the Guide of Youth (1695), before dying at an early age – just eight years before Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe. Source: Internet