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lawrence has 12 distinct synonyms spread across 6 of its 7 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
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)
Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for lawrence come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.