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Edward

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Ed⋅ward

  [ed-werd]
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–noun
1. Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall (“The Black Prince”), 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
2. Lake, a lake in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a source of the Nile. 830 sq. mi. (2150 sq. km).
3. a male given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “guardian.”

Go⋅rey

  [gawr-ee]
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Edward (St. John), 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.

Edward I

 
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(“Edward Longshanks”) 1239–1307, king of England 1272–1307 (son of Henry III).

Edward II

 
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1284–1327, king of England 1307–27 (son of Edward I).

Edward III

 
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1312–77, king of England 1327–77 (son of Edward II).

Edward IV

 
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1442–83, king of England 1461–70, 1471–1483: 1st king of the house of York.

Edward V

 
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1470–83, king of England 1483 (son of Edward IV).

Edward VI

 
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1537–53, king of England 1547–53 (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).

Edward VII

 
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(Albert Edward; “the Peacemaker”) 1841–1910, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1901–10 (son of Queen Victoria).

Edward VIII

 
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(Duke of Windsor) 1894–1972, king of Great Britain 1936: abdicated (son of George V; brother of George VI).
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Ed·ward 1   (ěd'wərd)   
King of the English (1042-1066) whose reign was marked by political conflict between Norman and English groups.
Ed·ward 2   (ěd'wərd)   
English soldier during the Hundred Years' War. The eldest son of Edward III, he fought at Crécy (1346) and Poitiers (1356), where the English forces captured John II of France.
Edward, Lake  
A lake in the Great Rift Valley of central Africa on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

Edward 
masc. proper name, from O.E. Ead-weard, lit. "prosperity-guard." Edwardian is attested from 1861 in ref. to the medieval Eng. kings of that name; 1908 in the sense of "of the time or reign of Edward VII" (1901-10), and, since 1934, especially with reference to the men's clothing styles (cf. teddy-boy, 1954).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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