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TUDOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603)

Synonyms:

House of Tudor; Tudor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Tudor" is a kind of...):

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

Meronyms (members of "Tudor"):

Tudor (a member of the dynasty that ruled England)

Elizabeth; Elizabeth I (Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603))

Grey; Lady Jane Grey (Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554))

Henry Tudor; Henry VII (first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509))

Henry VIII (son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547))

Bloody Mary; Mary I; Mary Tudor (daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the dynasty that ruled England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Tudor" is a kind of...):

ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)

Holonyms ("Tudor" is a member of...):

House of Tudor; Tudor (an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603))

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States dancer and choreographer (born in England) (1909-1987)

Synonyms:

Antony Tudor; Tudor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

choreographer (someone who creates new dances)

dancer; professional dancer; terpsichorean (a performer who dances professionally)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to a style of architecture in England in the 15th century

Example:

Tudor furniture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Tudor (an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603))

Credits

 Context examples: 

Mr. Tudor's uncle had married an English lady who was third cousin to a living lord, and Amy regarded the whole family with great respect, for in spite of her American birth and breeding, she possessed that reverence for titles which haunts the best of us—that unacknowledged loyalty to the early faith in kings which set the most democratic nation under the sun in ferment at the coming of a royal yellow-haired laddie, some years ago, and which still has something to do with the love the young country bears the old, like that of a big son for an imperious little mother, who held him while she could, and let him go with a farewell scolding when he rebelled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)