Taylor (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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  1. English historian.
  2. U.S. poet, novelist, and travel writer.
  3. English mathematician.
  4. U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
  5. Liberian guerrilla leader and politician: president 1997–2003.
  6. U.S. naval architect.
  7. American physician, clergyman, and poet; born in England.
  8. U.S. Methodist clergyman.
  9. U.S. actress, born in England to American parents.
  10. U.S. industrial engineer.
  11. English prelate and theological writer.
  12. U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1820–21, 1825–27.
  13. U.S. composer, music critic, and author.
  14. U.S. astrophysicist: Nobel Prize 1993.
  15. U.S. army general and diplomat: chief of staff 1955–59; chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1962–64.
  16. U.S. lawyer, industrialist, and diplomat.
  17. U.S. dancer and choreographer.
  18. U.S. short-story writer, novelist, and playwright.
  19. U.S. biographer, humorist, and newspaperman.
  20. English playwright and editor.
  21. 12th president of the U.S. 1849–50: major general during the Mexican War and commander of the army of the Rio Grande 1846.
  22. a city in southeastern Michigan.
  23. a town in central Texas.
  24. a male or female given name.
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  1. A (lan) J (ohn) P (ercivale). 1906–90, British historian whose many works include The Origins of the Second World War (1961)
  2. Brook. 1685–1731, English mathematician, who laid the foundations of differential calculus
  3. Dame Elizabeth. 1932–2011, US film actress, born in England: films include National Velvet (1944), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1959), and Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for both of which she won Oscars
  4. Frederick Winslow. 1856–1915, US engineer, who pioneered the use of time and motion studies to increase efficiency in industry
  5. Jeremy. 1613–67, English cleric, best known for his devotional manuals Holy Living (1650) and Holy Dying (1651)
  6. Zachary. 1784–1850, 12th president of the US (1849–50); hero of the Mexican War
Taylor (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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