1. English writer on card games (1672-1769) • Syn: Edmond Hoyle • Instance Hypernyms: writer, author, card player 2. an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001) • Syn: Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle • Instance Hypernyms: astrophysicist