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Definition of Eliot
1. Noun. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965).
2. Noun. British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880).
Definition of Eliot
1. Proper noun. An English and Scottish surname, variant of Elliott. ¹
2. Proper noun. (given name male from=Hebrew), variant of Elliott. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eliot
Literary usage of Eliot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Gibbon, like his patron in politics, supported the Tory ministry at first, and
continued to vote with them until the dissolution in 1781, when 'Mr. Eliot ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"About this time Eliot completed his task of translating the Bible into the Indian
... While in the family of Mr. Hooker, Eliot received serious impressions, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"SCHERER, EDWARD, 1861-91, George Eliot, Essays on English Literature, tr.
Saintsbury, p. 10. It is as a picture, or rather as a series of pictures, ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"Eliot, Charles William, 1834- liest way to prevent Industrial warfare. McClure.
... President Eliot and his book: University administration. HT Peck. Forum. ..."
5. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1905)
"3 Eliot claimed for Parliament an independent position, free except in the ...
To Charles, Eliot was but an ambitious demagogue who must be punished in ..."
6. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1858)
"THE following letters from Rev, Andrew Eliot, DD, of Boston, to Thomas Hollis,
... With such views, Mr. Hollis addressed Dr. Eliot the following letter, ..."
7. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1894)
"Austen Eliot and Annes Hale were married the 14th day of June. AD 1598. ...
Joane Eliot, the wife of John Eliot was buried the 16th day of July. AD 1565. ..."
8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"AN ITALIAN ON GEORGE Eliot. BEFORE I understood the Latin character as well as
I do now from having lived among a Latin people, it had often seemed strange ..."
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