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Meaning of LAWRENCE

Pronunciation:  'loruns

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
  2. [n]  English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
  3. [n]  United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
  4. [n]  English actress (1898-1952)
  5. [n]  English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
  6. [n]  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. [n]  Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the Church's treasure and when he responded by offering the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
 
 Synonyms: D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence, E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurentius, Lawrence of Arabia, Saint Lawrence, Sir Thomas Lawrence, St Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence
 
 See Also: actress, author, Kansas, KS, martyr, nuclear physicist, painter, soldier, Sunflower State, town, writer

 

 



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