Akademik

Lawrence

noun

1. English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)

• Syn: ↑D. H. Lawrence, ↑David Herbert Lawrence

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author

2. United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)

• Syn: ↑E. O. Lawrence, ↑Ernest Orlando Lawrence

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑nuclear physicist

3. English actress (1898-1952)

• Syn: ↑Gertrude Lawrence

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑actress

4. 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)

• Syn: ↑Saint Lawrence, ↑St. Lawrence, ↑Laurentius

• Topics: ↑Christianity, ↑Christian religion

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑martyr, ↑saint

5. Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)

• Syn: ↑T. E. Lawrence, ↑Thomas Edward Lawrence, ↑Lawrence of Arabia

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑soldier, ↑writer, ↑author

6. English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)

• Syn: ↑Sir Thomas Lawrence

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑painter

7. a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑town

• Part Holonyms: ↑Kansas, ↑Sunflower State, ↑KS

Useful english dictionary. 2012.