Eliot

[el-ee-uht, el-yuht]

noun

1. Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.

2. George Mary Ann Evans, 1819–80, English novelist.

3. John the Apostle of the Indians, 1604–90, American colonial missionary.

4. Sir John, 1592–1632, English statesman.

5. T(homas) S(tearns) 1888–1965, British poet and critic, born in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1948.

6. a male given name, form of Elias.

Eliot

/ ˈɛlɪət /

noun

1. George, real name Mary Ann Evans. 1819–80, English novelist, noted for her analysis of provincial Victorian society. Her best-known novels include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1872)

2. Sir John. 1592–1632, English statesman, a leader of parliamentary opposition to Charles I

3. T ( homas ) S ( tearns ). 1888–1965, British poet, dramatist, and critic, born in the US His poetry includes Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), The Waste Land (1922), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). Among his verse plays are Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), The Cocktail Party (1950), and The Confidential Clerk (1954): Nobel prize for literature 1948

Example Sentences

Veytia, a portly figure with a bushy mustache, seemed an unlikely Eliot Ness, but he was credited with reducing violence and hailed as “the terror of every criminal” in a laudatory corrido, or ballad.

From Los Angeles Times

For the students of Altadena Arts Magnet and Eliot Arts Magnet schools, however, the story does not end there.

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And several public and private schools were destroyed by the Eaton fire, including Pasadena Waldorf School and Eliot Arts Magnet Academy.

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Waste Land is the title of my new book, which is based on the great modernist poem by T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land,” published in 1922.

From Salon

“High-profile white men, including former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, have engaged in similar conduct but were never charged under the Act,” the motion said.

From Los Angeles Times