CROMWELL

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• CROMWELL (noun)
  The noun CROMWELL has 1 sense:

1. English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)

  Familiarity information: CROMWELL used as a noun is very rare.

• CROMWELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cromwell; Ironsides; Oliver Cromwell

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

Derivation:

Cromwellian (of or relating to or in the manner of Oliver Cromwell)

 Context examples 

The King, the Queen, Buckingham, Wolsey, Cromwell, all were given in turn; for with the happiest knack, the happiest power of jumping and guessing, he could always alight at will on the best scene, or the best speeches of each; and whether it were dignity, or pride, or tenderness, or remorse, or whatever were to be expressed, he could do it with equal beauty.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)