What does Lawrence mean?
Definitions for Lawrence
ˈlɔr əns, ˈlɒr-lawrence
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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.
Freebase
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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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
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.
Plus, he added, the gun was a fake. There’s no evidence and the government can not prove it’s a real gun, lawrence Hashish would know better than to put Lawrence Hashish in that position with a real gun, but Lawrence Hashish felt that since this was fake it would mean nothing. Lawrence Hashish had nothing to worry about. It’s like having a water pistol.
Economic theory would tell Blake Lawrence that there’s a limited pie of money that’s going to spent, there’s only so much money that’s going to be spent on college athletes in terms of endorsements. They ’ll be competing for that money.
People come from all over the world and see the shrine that Frieda built for his ashes, he (Lawrence) would later say there was something about New Mexico that you can never really shake.
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers also spoke at length about inflation and made a lengthy argument that turned out to be... not so good in hindsight, the mistakes are always glaring in hindsight.
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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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