lawrence

Noun

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

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

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

• English actress (1898-1952)

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

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

• 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)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Lawrence , D. H. Lawrence , David Herbert Lawrence , E. O. Lawrence , Ernest Orlando Lawrence , Gertrude Lawrence , Sir Thomas Lawrence , T. E. Lawrence , Thomas Edward Lawrence , Lawrence of Arabia , Saint Lawrence , St. Lawrence , Laurentius