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shaw
1[shaw]
noun
Midland U.S.a small wood or thicket.
Scot.the stalks and leaves of potatoes, turnips, and other cultivated root plants.
Shaw
2[shaw]
noun
Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.
Artie Arthur Arshawsky, 1910–2004, U.S. clarinetist and bandleader.
George Bernard, 1856–1950, Irish dramatist, critic, and novelist: Nobel Prize 1925.
Henry Wheeler. Billings, Josh.
Irwin, 1913–84, U.S. dramatist and author.
Richard Norman, 1831–1912, English architect, born in Scotland.
Thomas Edward. Lawrence, Thomas Edward.
Shaw
1/ ʃɔː /
noun
Artie, original name Arthur Arshawsky. 1910–2004, US jazz clarinetist, band leader, and composer
George Bernard, often known as GBS. 1856–1950, Irish dramatist and critic, in England from 1876. He was an active socialist and became a member of the Fabian Society but his major works are effective as satiric attacks rather than political tracts. These include Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), Pygmalion (1913), Back to Methuselah (1921), and St Joan (1923): Nobel prize for literature 1925
Richard Norman. 1831–1912, English architect
Thomas Edward. the name assumed by (T. E.) Lawrence after 1927
shaw
2/ ʃɔː /
verb
to show
noun
a show
the part of a potato plant that is above ground
shaw
3/ ʃɔː /
noun
archaica small wood; thicket; copse
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of shaw1
Example Sentences
Sonja Shaw, a Trump supporter who is president of the Chino Valley Unified Board of Education, has called on California school systems to adopt resolutions in support of the Trump administration order.
“The stakes couldn’t be higher,” Shaw said last week.
Shaw, a candidate for state superintendent of public instruction, said other school systems could model these resolutions on one passed by her school district.
Among missing books are the history of the national library building itself in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, by Daniel Huws, and books by George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf.
Defender Luke Shaw described a club at "rock bottom", while the former Sporting boss questioned his own future in Manchester.
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