Lawrence
WordNet
noun
(1) A town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
(2) English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
(3) United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
(4) English actress (1898-1952)
(5) English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
(6) Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
(7) 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)
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Proper noun
- , the usual spelling of Laurence in the U.S.
Quotations
- 2007 John Dunning, The Bookworm's Last Fling, Simon & Schuster 2007, ISBN 1416523391, page 321
- "My name is Richard Lawrence."
- Candice thought he had a storybook name. Like Lawrence of Arabia, she said, but what she always called him was Ricky. Just a jump away from Tricky Dicky.
- 2003 Elise Title, Inside Out: A Mystery, St.Martin's Minotaur 2003, ISBN 0312285825, page 69
- "I named him Lawrence. After my father. Pete, that's my husband, he never really liked the name Lawrence. He thought it wasn't very..." she shut her eyes for a moment, shaking her head slowly, "...very masculine." She opened her eyes and smiled ruefully. " That's a good one, isn't it?"