EDWARD

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• EDWARD (noun)
  The noun EDWARD has 10 senses:

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

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

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

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

9. third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964)

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

  Familiarity information: EDWARD used as a noun is familiar.

• EDWARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Duke of Windsor; Edward; Edward VIII

Instance hypernyms:

King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)

Holonyms ("Edward" is a member of...):

House of Windsor; Windsor (the British royal family since 1917)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Albert Edward; Edward; Edward VII

Instance hypernyms:

King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)

Holonyms ("Edward" is a member of...):

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I)

Derivation:

Edwardian (of or relating to or characteristic of the era of Edward VII in England)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward; Edward VI

Instance hypernyms:

King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward; Edward V

Instance hypernyms:

King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward; Edward IV

Instance hypernyms:

King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward; Edward III

Instance hypernyms:

King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)

Sense 7

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward; Edward II

Instance hypernyms:

King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)

Sense 8

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward; Edward I

Instance hypernyms:

King of England; King of Great Britain (the sovereign ruler of England)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward; Edward Antony Richard Louis; Prince Edward

Instance hypernyms:

prince (a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign))

Sense 10

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Black Prince; Edward

Instance hypernyms:

Prince of Wales (the male heir apparent of the British sovereign)

 Context examples 

I thought you were pleased, once, with my being a little inexperienced and girlish, Edward—I am sure you said so—but you seem to hate me for it now, you are so severe.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I should be a better man if I did what you advise, but I shouldn't be quite George Edward Challenger.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My Edward and I, then, are happy: and the more so, because those we most love are happy likewise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am with you, Edward, as true as hilt to blade.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was once more Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A new study at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) and the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech has found a connection between common household chemicals and birth defects.

(Common Household Chemicals Lead to Birth Defects in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Yes, 17 King Edward Street, near St. Paul’s.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went over and read:—"Edward Spencelagh, master mariner, murdered by pirates off the coast of Andres, April, 1854, æt. 30."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Edward turned hastily towards her, on hearing this, and, in a voice of surprise and concern, which required no explanation to her, repeated, Devonshire!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When we came back from Minehead he was gone down to Edward's, and there he has been ever since.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)