sir thomas more

1. 1.

   English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state

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Questions about sir thomas more

What does sir thomas more mean?

sir thomas more means "English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state".

What is another word for sir thomas more?

Close synonyms include More, Thomas More. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sir thomas more a common word?

sir thomas more is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.