Lawrence

Lawrence
noun
1. English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author
2. United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
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)
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)
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)
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

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