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lawrence   (TTS Sound)

The noun lawrence has 7 senses

• Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Laurentius -- (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))


• Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia -- (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, Sir Thomas Lawrence -- (English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830))


• Lawrence, Gertrude Lawrence -- (English actress (1898-1952))


• Lawrence, E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence -- (United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958))


• Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence -- (English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930))


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