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EDWARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)
Synonyms:
Black Prince; Edward
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Prince of Wales (the male heir apparent of the British sovereign)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964)
Synonyms:
Edward; Edward Antony Richard Louis; Prince Edward
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
prince (a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign))
Sense 3
Meaning:
King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307)
Synonyms:
Edward; Edward I
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Sense 4
Meaning:
King of England from 1307 to 1327 and son of Edward I; was defeated at Bannockburn by the Scots led by Robert the Bruce; was deposed and died in prison (1284-1327)
Synonyms:
Edward; Edward II
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)
Synonyms:
Edward; Edward III
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Sense 6
Meaning:
King of England from 1461 to 1470 and from 1471 to 1483; was dethroned in 1470 but regained the throne in 1471 by his victory at the battle of Tewkesbury (1442-1483)
Synonyms:
Edward; Edward IV
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Sense 7
Meaning:
King of England who was crowned at the age of 13 on the death of his father Edward IV but was immediately confined to the Tower of London where he and his younger brother were murdered (1470-1483)
Synonyms:
Edward; Edward V
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Sense 8
Meaning:
King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553)
Synonyms:
Edward; Edward VI
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Sense 9
Meaning:
King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910)
Synonyms:
Albert Edward; Edward; Edward VII
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Holonyms ("Edward" is a member of...):
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I)
Derivation:
Edwardian (of or relating to or characteristic of the era of Edward VII in England)
Sense 10
Meaning:
King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972)
Synonyms:
Duke of Windsor; Edward; Edward VIII
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)
Holonyms ("Edward" is a member of...):
House of Windsor; Windsor (the British royal family since 1917)
Context examples:
“Ah, Edward,” cried his wife, “if you had seen our boy, like a caged eagle, beating against the bars, you would have helped to give him even so short a flight as this.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs. Allen, in a family of children; and when she expatiated on the talents of her sons, and the beauty of her daughters, when she related their different situations and views—that John was at Oxford, Edward at Merchant Taylors', and William at sea—and all of them more beloved and respected in their different station than any other three beings ever were, Mrs. Allen had no similar information to give, no similar triumphs to press on the unwilling and unbelieving ear of her friend, and was forced to sit and appear to listen to all these maternal effusions, consoling herself, however, with the discovery, which her keen eye soon made, that the lace on Mrs. Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
‘Well, that’s true enough,’ said he. ‘You know, Victor,’ turning to his son, ‘when we broke up that poaching gang, they swore to knife us, and Sir Edward Holly has actually been attacked.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The engineers who developed the technique, Fei Chen, Paul Tillberg and Edward Boyden at MIT, assert it offers the ability to image large, intact, 3-D brain structures with nanoscale precision for the first time.
(Bigger is better for brain tissue understanding, NSF)
NASA's C-20A features a high-precision autopilot designed and developed by engineers at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, allowing the aircraft to fly the same flight lines this spring as those flown in 2013 within 15 feet (4.5 meters) or closer.
(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)
“Edward,” said Miss Murdstone, “let there be an end of this. I go tomorrow.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Fully assured by these words that Mr. Edward—my Mr. Rochester (God bless him, wherever he was!)—was at least alive: was, in short, "the present gentleman."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Ha!” cried Edward, reining up for an instant his powerful black steed.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I made this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho, nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready in my cabinet.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
My name is Edward Dunn Malone.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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