GERTRUDE LAWRENCE Synonyms

• a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

• a person who tries to please or amuse

• an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

• a person who sings

• United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)

• United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991)

• (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night

• an actor who plays a principal role

• a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem

• a performer who receives prominent billing

• a star-shaped character * used in printing

• the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub

• indicating the most important performer or role

• feature as the star

• be the star in a performance

• mark with an asterisk

• a person who sings

• Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)

• Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)

• English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)

• English actress (1898-1952)

• United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)

• English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)

• a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856