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Definition of Saint Lawrence

1. Noun. 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).

2. Noun. A North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saint Lawrence

Saint James Saint James the Apostle Saint Jerome Saint Joan Saint John Saint John's Saint John's bread Saint John River Saint John the Apostle Saint Johns

Saint Johns River Saint Joseph Saint Jude Saint Kitts Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lawrence (current term) Saint Lawrence River Saint Lawrence Seaway Saint Louis Saint Lucia

Saint Lucian Saint Lucian Creole French Saint Lucians Saint Luke Saint Maarten Saint Mark Saint Martin Saint Martin's summer Saint Mary Saint Matthew

Literary usage of Saint Lawrence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The whole of the valley of the Saint Lawrence River, from a short distance above ... The valleys of the principal affluents of the Saint Lawrence are also ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Boundaries and Extent— It is bounded on the north by Hudson Ray and Strait, on the east by Labrador and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, on the south by the Bay ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Saint Lawrence, 1900 miles ... The Saint Maurice, which rises in Lake Oskelaneo and empties into the Saint Lawrence at Three Rivers, is over 325 miles ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"The basin of the Saint Lawrence includes the entire system of the Great Lakes, ... The name Saint Lawrence River is properly confined to the outlet of Lake ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Almost all the vast region to the north of the Saint Lawrence is a portion of the so-called Laurentian Plateau, which belongs to the most ancient geological ..."

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