
Meaning of LAWRENCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'loruns
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- [n] a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
- [n] English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
- [n] United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
- [n] English actress (1898-1952)
- [n] English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
- [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)
- [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)
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| | 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 |
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| | See Also: | | actress, author, Kansas, KS, martyr, nuclear physicist, painter, soldier, Sunflower State, town, writer | |
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