EDWARDS

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• EDWARDS (noun)
  The noun EDWARDS has 1 sense:

1. American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)

  Familiarity information: EDWARDS used as a noun is very rare.

• EDWARDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edwards; Jonathan Edwards

Instance hypernyms:

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)

 Context examples 

From the time of the Edwards such buildings as Conway or Caernarvon castles, to say nothing of Royal Windsor, had shown that it was possible to secure luxury in peace as well as security in times of trouble.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

NASA's C-20A features a high-precision autopilot designed and developed by engineers at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, allowing the aircraft to fly the same flight lines this spring as those flown in 2013 within 15 feet (4.5 meters) or closer.

(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)

It's a little out-of-the-way place, where they administer what is called ecclesiastical law, and play all kinds of tricks with obsolete old monsters of acts of Parliament, which three-fourths of the world know nothing about, and the other fourth supposes to have been dug up, in a fossil state, in the days of the Edwards.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)