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Lawrence

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Noun

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)

4. gertrude lawrence, lawrence

English actress (1898-1952)

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.


Lawrence

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noun
1. 
Saint. died 258 ad, Roman martyr: according to tradition he was roasted to death on a gridiron. Feast day: Aug 10
2. 
D(avid) H(erbert). 1885–1930, British novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Many of his works deal with the destructiveness of modern industrial society, contrasted with the beauty of nature and instinct, esp the sexual impulse. His novels include Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
3. 
Ernest Orlando. 1901–58, US physicist, who invented the cyclotron (1931): Nobel prize for physics 1939
4. 
Gertrude. 1898–1952, British actress, noted esp for her roles in comedies such as Noël Coward's Private Lives (1930)
5. 
Sir Thomas. 1769–1830, British portrait painter
6. 
T(homas) E(dward), known as Lawrence of Arabia. 1888–1935, British soldier and writer. He took a major part in the Arab revolt against the Turks (1916–18), proving himself an outstanding guerrilla leader. He described his experiences in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926)

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Lawrence

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noun
a masculine name
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1. 
D(avid) H(erbert)1885-1930; Eng. novelist & poet
2. 
Ernest O(rlando)1901-58; U.S. physicist
3. 
Gertrude(born Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen) 1898-1952; Eng. actress
4. 
T(homas) E(dward)(changed name, 1927, to Thomas Edward Shaw) 1888-1935; Brit. adventurer & writer
: called Lawrence of Arabia
5. 
Sir Thomas1769-1830; Eng. portrait painter
1. 
city in NE Mass.: pop. 72,000
2. 
city in NE Kans., on the Kansas River: pop. 80,000

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Lawrence

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1. A city of northeast Kansas on the Kansas River east-southeast of Topeka. Founded in 1854, it was the scene of a proslavery raid (1856) that sparked retaliatory killings by the abolitionist John Brown.
2. A city of northeast Massachusetts on the Merrimack River north-northeast of Lowell. Laid out as an industrial town in 1845, it grew as a textile center.
British painter remembered for his portrait series (1814-1818) of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon.
British actress remembered for her performances in the plays Private Lives (1930) and Lady in the Dark (1941) as well as the musical The King and I (1951).
American physicist. He won a 1939 Nobel Prize for the development of the cyclotron.
British writer whose fiction concerns the struggle for human fulfillment within a dehumanizing industrialized society. His novels include Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). He also wrote poetry and literary criticism.
British soldier, adventurer, and writer who led the Arab revolt against the Turks (1916-1918) and later wrote an account of his adventures, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926).

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