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Lawrence
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1. laurentius, lawrence, saint lawrence, st. lawrence
Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
2. lawrence, lawrence of arabia, t. e. lawrence, thomas edward lawrence
Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
3. lawrence, sir thomas lawrence
English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
5. e. o. lawrence, ernest orlando lawrence, lawrence
United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
6. d. h. lawrence, david herbert lawrence, lawrence
English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
7. lawrence
a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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