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Definitions for Lawrence
ˈlɔr əns, ˈlɒr-lawrence
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Lawrence.
Princeton's WordNet
Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Laurentiusnoun
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 Arabianoun
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 Lawrencenoun
English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
Lawrence, Gertrude Lawrencenoun
English actress (1898-1952)
Lawrence, E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrencenoun
United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrencenoun
English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
Lawrencenoun
a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
Wiktionary
Lawrencenoun
A male given name from Latin, the usual spelling of Laurence in the U.S.
"I named him Lawrence. After my father. Pete, that's my husband, he never really liked the name Lawrence. He thought it wasn't very..." she shut her eyes for a moment, shaking her head slowly, "...very masculine." She opened her eyes and smiled ruefully. " That's a good one, isn't it?"
Lawrencenoun
A patronymic surname.
"My name is Richard Lawrence."
Lawrencenoun
A city, the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, United States.
Lawrencenoun
A city in Massachusetts, United States and one of the two county seats of Essex County.
Lawrencenoun
A small town in Otago, New Zealand, named after Henry Montgomery Lawrence.
Lawrencenoun
A haze caused by heat; named after a third-century Christian killed by Emperor Valerian by being burned.
Wikidata
Lawrence
Lawrence is the sixth largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Douglas County. Located in northeastern Kansas, Lawrence is the anchor city of the Lawrence, Kansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Douglas County. Located 25 miles east of Topeka, Kansas, and 41 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri, it is situated along the banks of the Kansas and Wakarusa Rivers. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 87,643. Lawrence is a college town and is the home to the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. Lawrence was founded by the New England Emigrant Aid Company and was named for Amos Adams Lawrence who offered financial aid and support for the settlement. Lawrence was central to the Bleeding Kansas era and was the site of the Wakarusa War, the sacking of Lawrence and Quantrill’s Raid. Early in its existence, Lawrence transitioned from being a political city to a varied one focusing on many industries including agriculture, manufacturing and education when the University of Kansas was founded in 1866 and Haskell Indian Nations University opened in 1884. Lawrence has been named one of the best places to retire by U.S. News & World Report and one of America's 10 best college towns by Parents & Colleges.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
LAWRENCE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lawrence is ranked #232 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Lawrence surname appeared 129,699 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 44 would have the surname Lawrence.
68.8% or 89,324 total occurrences were White.
24.6% or 31,971 total occurrences were Black.
2.5% or 3,242 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
2.3% or 2,983 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.9% or 1,206 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.7% or 960 total occurrences were Asian.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Lawrence' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4358
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Lawrence' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3550
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Lawrence in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Lawrence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of Lawrence in a Sentence
Jennifer Lawrence is somebody I really look up to because I really like the kind of choices she makes. She’ll do the 'Hunger Games' but then she’ll also do the 'Silver Linings Playbook', so I probably want to start with like a 'Silver Linings Playbook', something more where there’s more scope for performance, you know, because I feel like that’s where I’ll really learn.
Border Protection Agent Lawrence Madrid was the ninth CBP employee arrested, indicted, or otherwise prosecuted this fiscal year on corruption related charges.
Everything on set with [ executive producers ] Jason [ Sudekis ], Brendan [ Hunt ], Joe [ Kelly ], and Bill [ Lawrence ], I'm just learning so much from them -- how they managed and how they preserved that good vibes environment, again, it was such a really nice experience.
We do n’t make life easy for them, of course, when we both argue over Zoom and keep sending curveballs to the lawyers, lawrence Stroll’s in America now and I ’m here. At some point we will finalise it( the deal).
She lost everything. They were her life, our lives are never going to be the same without them. When the paper asked if Brazil left the children at the residence alone, Lawrence said.
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- لورانسArabic
- LawrenceCzech
- lawrenceDanish
- lawrenceGerman
- ΛαυρέντιοςGreek
- laŭleĝecoEsperanto
- lorenzoSpanish
- lainvaltioFinnish
- lawrenceFrench
- लॉरेंसHindi
- lawrenceIndonesian
- LawrenceItalian
- לורנסHebrew
- ローレンスJapanese
- ಲಾರೆನ್ಸ್Kannada
- 로렌스Korean
- lawrenceLatin
- LawrenceDutch
- LawrenceNorwegian
- LawrencePolish
- LawrencePortuguese
- lawrenceRomanian
- ЛоуренсRussian
- LawrenceSwedish
- லாரன்ஸ்Tamil
- లారెన్స్Telugu
- ลอเรนซ์Thai
- LawrenceTurkish
- законностіUkrainian
- لارنسUrdu
- luật lệVietnamese
- לאָראַנסYiddish
- 劳伦斯Chinese
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