lawrence Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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)
    St. Lawrence; Saint Lawrence; Laurentius.
  2. 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)
    Thomas Edward Lawrence; T. E. Lawrence; Lawrence of Arabia.
  3. noun English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
    Sir Thomas Lawrence.
  4. noun English actress (1898-1952)
    Gertrude Lawrence.
  5. noun United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
    E. O. Lawrence; Ernest Orlando Lawrence.
  6. noun English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
    David Herbert Lawrence; D. H. Lawrence.
  7. noun a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856

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