| Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spenser 1874-1965. British politician and writer. As prime minister (1940-1945 and 1951-1955) he led Great Britain through World War II. Churchill published several works, including The Second World War (1948-1953), and won the 1953 Nobel Prize for literature. Chur·chill'i·an (chûr-chĭl'ē-ən) adj. |