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) [sturnz], 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. EliotGeorge18191880FEnglishWRITING: novelist 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. EliotSir John15921632MEnglishPOLITICS: statesman Sir John. 1592–1632, English statesman, a leader of parliamentary opposition to Charles I
3. EliotT(homas) S(tearns)18881965MBritishUSWRITING: poetTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: critic 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

And following such giants of the game will be tough as "there's an expectation, and it's possibly an unrealistic expectation for Jerod and Eliot Wolf, the new general manager".

From BBC

On the library shelves, Voltaire and George Eliot are joined by Agatha Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner, the Ventura lawyer and author who created Perry Mason.

From Los Angeles Times

Military leaders engage in an “unequal dialogue” with their civilian superiors, in scholar Eliot Cohen’s phrase.

From Los Angeles Times

Fifty years ago, when the Watergate scandal arose, President Nixon’s attorney general, Eliot Richardson, appointed Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox as the special prosecutor.

From Los Angeles Times

Eliot in his poem “The Hollow Men,” reminded us, “between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act falls the shadow.”

From Salon