Lawrence

/ˈlɔrəns/

/ˈlɔrəns/

Other forms: Lawrences

Definitions of Lawrence

1. noun

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

   an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
2. noun

   English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
   synonyms: D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence

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   author, writer

   a person who writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
3. noun

   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)
   synonyms: Laurentius, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence

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   martyr

   one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion

   saint

   a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
4. noun

   English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
   synonyms: Sir Thomas Lawrence

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   painter

   an artist who paints
5. noun

   Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
   synonyms: Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence

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   soldier

   an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army

   author, writer

   a person who writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
6. noun

   English actress (1898-1952)
   synonyms: Gertrude Lawrence

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   actress

   a female actor
7. noun

   United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
   synonyms: E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence

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   nuclear physicist

   a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics