Search Result:wallace
Overview of noun wallace
The noun wallace has 3 senses
- Wallace, Sir William Wallace -- (Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305))
- Wallace, Edgar Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace -- (English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932))
- Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace -- (English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913))