lawrence
Nouns
- (n) 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) Laurentius, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence,
- (n) Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935) Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence,
- (n) English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830) Sir Thomas Lawrence,
- (n) English actress (1898-1952) Gertrude Lawrence,
- (n) United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958) E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence,
- (n) English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930) David Herbert Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence,
- (n) a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856