1.SirUsed as an honorific before the given name or the full name of baronets and knights. 2.Used as a form of polite address for a man:Don't forget your hat, sir. 3.Used as a salutation in a letter:Dear Sir or Madam. [Middle English, variant ofsire,sire; seesire.] ...
Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. Sir John Hawkins - English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595) Hawkins, Hawkyns,...
Sir Edward Heath was the Conservative prime minister of Great Britain from 1970 to 1974. Although he was of modest origins, Heath was educated at Oxford, where he was elected president of the University Conservative Association in 1937. In 1938, as chair
Formerly, it was thought that the Arthurian legend was the work of several inventive poets and romancers of the Middle Ages. The generally accepted theory now is that Arthurian legend developed out of stories of Celtic mythology. The most archaic form in which these occur in British sources is...
In full: Sir Edward William Elgar Born: June 2, 1857, Broadheath,Worcestershire,England Died: February 23, 1934,Worcester,Worcestershire(aged 76) Notable Works: march “Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85” “Enigma Variations” “Pomp and Circumstance March in D Major” ...
It’s outdated. Unless you’re writing a letter to someone at the Royal British Society, chances are the recipient will wonder how you time-traveled from 19th-century Victorian England. It’s notgender inclusive. The recipient may not identify as a Sir or a Madam. In that case, your reci...
During the early part of the 19th century, the British Royal Family was more German than anything else. George III, who ruled from 1760-1820, was the first of the Hanoverian monarchs to be born in England and use English as his first language. George III married a German aristocrat, Char...
“They’re not putting me away in a home, you know,” he said. “Of all British footballers he was, like Stanley Matthews, a player to reaffirm that professional soccer can be as much a medium of expression as chess or jazz or any other art form that you have to make up as you ...
This dilemma is being presented at a moment when for the first time ever the techniques of systems analysis make it possible to begin to attempt to handle the consider able number of variables in the environ mental picture even though verification is admittedly difficult". "When a full ...
(February 1959). At home, Macmillan gave firm support toBritain’sarray of postwar social programs. He led theConservativeParty to a resounding victory in the 1959 general election by effectively contrasting Britain’s prewar unemployment with its postwar full employment under the slogan “You’ve ...