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LAWRENCE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Lawrence" is a part of...):

Kan.; Kansas; KS; Sunflower State (a state in midwestern United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

D. H. Lawrence; David Herbert Lawrence; Lawrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

E. O. Lawrence; Ernest Orlando Lawrence; Lawrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)

Sense 4

Meaning:

English actress (1898-1952)

Synonyms:

Gertrude Lawrence; Lawrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Lawrence; Sir Thomas Lawrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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; Lawrence of Arabia; T. E. Lawrence; Thomas Edward Lawrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 7

Meaning:

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; Lawrence; Saint Lawrence; St. Lawrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

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)

Domain category:

Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)

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