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Definition of Edward

1. Noun. King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972).

2. Noun. King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910).

3. Noun. King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553).

4. Noun. 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).

5. Noun. 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).

6. Noun. 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).

7. Noun. 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).

8. Noun. King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307).

9. Noun. Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964).

10. Noun. Son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376).

Definition of Edward

1. Proper noun. (Old English male given name). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Edward

Edom Edomite Edomites Edouard Lemaitre Edouard Manet Edouard Vuillard Edridge-Green lamp Edronax Edsel Bryant Ford Eduard Buchner

Education Department Education Secretary Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg Edvard Munch Edward Edward Albee Edward Antony Richard Louis Edward Appleton Edward Benjamin Britten

Edward Bouverie Pusey Edward Calvin Kendall Edward Durell Stone Edward Estlin Cummings Edward Everett Hale Edward Fitzgerald Edward Franklin Albeen Edward G. Robinson Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Literary usage of Edward

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 (1890)
"edward II on his accession obtained from the pope a commission authorising Greenfield to ... in his English exile for fidelity to Y'ork and King edward. ..."

2. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1872)
"gradual Progress of the Authority of Parliament traced through the Reigns of edward III. and his Successors down to Henry IV. ..."

3. English Schools at the Reformation 1546-8 by Arthur Francis Leach (1896)
"edward VI.: Spoiler of Schools. NEVER was a great reputation more easily gained and less deserved than that of King edward VI. as a founder of schools. ..."

4. Reeves' History of the English Law: From the Time of the Romans, to the End by John Reeves, William Francis Finlason (1869)
"Statute» nf edward IV.—The Jurisdiction of the Sheriff's Tourn Restrained —Gamin;/—Statutes of ... IN the rei<xn of edward IV., the parliament seemed to be ..."

5. The Zurich Letters: Comprising the Correspondence of Several English Bishops by Hastings Robinson, John Hunter, Parker Society (Great Britain) (1846)
"edward the sixth, by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the Faith, and of the church of England and Ireland supreme head ..."

6. The Zurich Letters: Comprising the Correspondence of Several English Bishops by Hastings Robinson, John Hunter, Parker Society (Great Britain) (1846)
"edward the sixth, by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the Faith, and of the church of England and Ireland supreme head ..."

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