Meaning of Lewis in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈluwəs/

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  1. Noun

    Lewis

    Etymology

    late Middle English: probably from Old French lous, plural of lou(p) ‘wolf’, the name of a kind of siege engine

    Definitions

    1. United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
  2. 2. United States athlete who won gold medals at the Olympics for his skill in sprinting and jumping (born in 1961)
  3. 3. United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)
  4. 4. United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)
  5. 5. United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)
  6. 6. English critic and novelist

    Examples

    • « author of theological works and of books for children (1898-1963) »

Famous quotes

  • « The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. »
    William Least Heat-Moon
  • « Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time. »
    Corin Nemec
  • « When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not. »
    Chris O'Dowd
  • « I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. »
    Mike Tyson
  • « I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you. »
    Anthony Storr

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