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Noun lawrence has 7 senses
- Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Laurentius - 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)
--1 is a kind of martyr; saint
- Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia - Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
--2 is a kind of soldier; writer, author
- Lawrence, Sir Thomas Lawrence - English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
--3 is a kind of painter
- Lawrence, Gertrude Lawrence - English actress (1898-1952)
--4 is a kind of actress
- Lawrence, E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence - United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
--5 is a kind of nuclear physicist
- Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence - English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
--6 is a kind of writer, author
- Lawrence - a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
--7 is a kind of town
--7 is a part of Kansas, Sunflower State, KS
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