Lawrence

Words with a similar base: D._H._Lawrence, David_Herbert_Lawrence, E._O._Lawrence, Ernest_Orlando_Lawrence, Gertrude_Lawrence, Lawrence, Lawrence_of_Arabia, Saint_Lawrence, Sir_Thomas_Lawrence, St._Lawrence, T._E._Lawrence, Thomas_Edward_Lawrence

'Lawrence'

[lawrence.n.01] as in: 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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[lawrence.n.02] as in: Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)

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[lawrence.n.03] as in: English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)

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[lawrence.n.04] as in: English actress (1898-1952)

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[lawrence.n.05] as in: United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)

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[lawrence.n.06] as in: English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)

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[lawrence.n.07] as in: a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856