WARWICK

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

1. English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471)

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

• WARWICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Earl of Warwick; Kingmaker; Richard Neville; Warwick

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

Writing in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers from the University of Warwick in England say the discovery was made when observing weather patterns on the planet, which is 1,000 light years away.

(Exoplanet Could Have Clouds of Rubies, Sapphires, VOA)

“It was one of those chance discoveries,” says researcher Boris Gänsicke, from the University of Warwick in the UK, who led the study.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire, nor of any of the remarkable places through which their route thither lay; Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenilworth, Birmingham, etc. are sufficiently known.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France, David Armstrong and colleagues at the University of Warwick’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Group independently detected the planet in the first instance, alongside researchers at the Universidade do Porto.

(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Using the NASA Kepler satellite, we were able to study light reflected from HAT-P-7b's atmosphere, finding that the atmosphere was changing over time,” said David Armstrong in Warwick's Astrophysics Group. "These results show that strong winds circle the planet, transporting clouds from the night side to the dayside.

(Exoplanet Could Have Clouds of Rubies, Sapphires, VOA)

When we were on a house-party together up in Warwick, she left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it—and suddenly I remembered the story about her that had eluded me that night at Daisy's.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)