Associations to the word «Edward»

Wiktionary

EDWARD, proper noun. A male given name.
EDWARD SNOWDEN, noun. Current or former National Security Agency employee other than the real Edward Snowden, who leaks national security secrets to the media
EDWARD SNOWDENS, noun. Plural of Edward Snowden

Dictionary definition

EDWARD, noun. King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972).
EDWARD, noun. King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910).
EDWARD, noun. King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553).
EDWARD, 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).
EDWARD, 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).
EDWARD, 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).
EDWARD, 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).
EDWARD, noun. King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307).
EDWARD, noun. Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964).
EDWARD, noun. Son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats