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Sherlock Holmes

 
pronunciation:
shuhr lak homz [or] shuhr lak holmz
part of speech: noun
definition 1: a fictional detective hero in many late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century short stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is described as having extraordinary powers of observation and deduction.
definition 2: a person who observes or analyzes keenly.