Edward | (n) King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972), Syn. Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII |
Edward | (n) King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910), Syn. Albert Edward, Edward VII |
Edward | (n) King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553), Syn. Edward VI |
Edward | (n) 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), Syn. Edward V |
Edward | (n) 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), Syn. Edward IV |
Edward | (n) 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), Syn. Edward III |
Edward | (n) 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), Syn. Edward II |
Edward | (n) King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307), Syn. Edward I |
Edward | (n) third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964), Syn. Edward Antony Richard Louis, Prince Edward |
Edward | (n) son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376), Syn. Black Prince |
Edwardian | (n) someone belonging to (or as if belonging to) the era of Edward VII |
Edwardian | (adj) of or relating to or characteristic of the era of Edward VII in England |
Edwards | (n) American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758), Syn. Jonathan Edwards |
Albee | (n) United States dramatist (1928-), Syn. Edward Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen |
Appleton | (n) English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966), Syn. Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Edward Appleton |
Berry | (n) United States rock singer (born in 1931), Syn. Charles Edward Berry, Chuck Berry |
Britten | (n) major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976), Syn. Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh, Edward Benjamin Britten |
cummings | (n) United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962), Syn. Edward Estlin Cummings, e. e. cummings |
Elgar | (n) British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934), Syn. Sir Edward William Elgar, Sir Edward Elgar |
Ellington | (n) United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader (1899-1974), Syn. Edward Kennedy Ellington, Duke Ellington |
Fitzgerald | (n) English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883), Syn. Edward Fitzgerald |
Gibbon | (n) English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794), Syn. Edward Gibbon |
Hale | (n) prolific United States writer (1822-1909), Syn. Edward Everett Hale |
Harriman | (n) United States railway tycoon (1848-1909), Syn. Edward Henry Harriman, E. H. Harriman |
Housman | (n) English poet (1859-1936), Syn. A. E. Housman, Alfred Edward Housman |
Hughes | (n) English poet (born in 1930), Syn. Ted Hughes, Edward James Hughes |
Ives | (n) United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954), Syn. Charles Edward Ives |
Jenner | (n) English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823), Syn. Edward Jenner |
Kendall | (n) United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972), Syn. Edward Kendall, Edward Calvin Kendall |
Lawrence | (n) Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935), Syn. T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, Thomas Edward Lawrence |
Lear | (n) British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888), Syn. Edward Lear |
Lee | (n) American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870), Syn. Robert E. Lee, Robert Edward Lee |
Lytton | (n) English writer of historical romances (1803-1873), Syn. First Baron Lytton, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton |
MacDowell | (n) United States composer best remembered as a composer of works for the piano (1860-1908), Syn. Edward MacDowell |
Masefield | (n) English poet (1878-1967), Syn. John Edward Masefield, John Masefield |
Mason | (n) English writer (1865-1948), Syn. A. E. W. Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason |
Meade | (n) English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (1907-1995), Syn. James Edward Meade |
Moore | (n) English philosopher (1873-1958), Syn. G. E. Moore, George Edward Moore |
Morley | (n) United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923), Syn. Edward Williams Morley, Edward Morley, E. W. Morley |
Murrow | (n) United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965), Syn. Edward Roscoe Murrow, Edward R. Murrow |
Muybridge | (n) United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904), Syn. Eadweard Muybridge, Edward James Muggeridge |
Pickett | (n) American Confederate general known for leading a disastrous charge at Gettysburg (1825-1875), Syn. George Edward Pickett |
Pusey | (n) English theologian who (with John Henry Newman and John Keble) founded the Oxford movement (1800-1882), Syn. Edward Pusey, Edward Bouverie Pusey |
Rickenbacker | (n) the most decorated United States combat pilot in World War I (1890-1973), Syn. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, Eddie Rickenbacker |
Robinson | (n) United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973), Syn. Edward G. Robinson, Edward Goldenberg Robinson |
Salk | (n) United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914), Syn. Jonas Edward Salk, Jonas Salk |
Sapir | (n) anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939), Syn. Edward Sapir |
Scripps | (n) United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926), Syn. Edward Wyllis Scripps |
Steichen | (n) United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973), Syn. Edward Jean Steichen |
Stone | (n) United States architect (1902-1978), Syn. Edward Durell Stone |