LAWRENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lawrence mean? 

• LAWRENCE (noun)
  The noun LAWRENCE has 7 senses:

1. 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)

2. Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)

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

4. English actress (1898-1952)

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

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

7. a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856

  Familiarity information: LAWRENCE used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAWRENCE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Laurentius; Lawrence; Saint Lawrence; St. Lawrence

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)

Sense 2

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

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

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 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lawrence; Sir Thomas Lawrence

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 4

Meaning:

English actress (1898-1952)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gertrude Lawrence; Lawrence

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

E. O. Lawrence; Ernest Orlando Lawrence; Lawrence

Instance hypernyms:

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

D. H. Lawrence; David Herbert Lawrence; Lawrence

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 7

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)

 Context examples 

Countryman Lawrence Cherono won the men's division.

(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)

She saw Mr. Lawrence drive off, and then sallied out to dig her way down to the hedge, where she paused and took a survey.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mars may have been a wetter place than previously thought, according to research on simulated Martian meteorites conducted, in part, at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

(New Evidence for A Water-Rich History on Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

With the help of researchers at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, they modified the compound to make it work better as a potential drug and evaluated the effects of the molecule in different assays, or tests, in the laboratory.

(Scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis, National Institutes of Health)

Traumatic microbleeds may represent injury to blood vessels that occur following even minor head injury, said Lawrence Latour, Ph.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) researcher and senior author of the study.

(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)

The announcement was made Friday by Lawrence Molnar, professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his students, and fellow astronomers from Apache Point Observatory (APO), New Mexico, and the University of Wyoming at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas.

(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)

I enjoyed the trips to Hampton Court and the Kensington Museum more than anything else, for at Hampton I saw Raphael's cartoons, and at the Museum, rooms full of pictures by Turner, Lawrence, Reynolds, Hogarth, and the other great creatures.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)