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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of northeast Massachusetts on the Merrimack River northwest of Boston. Developed by a group of industrialists in the 1820s, it was a major textile center into the first half of the 1900s.
  • Percival,American astronomer. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Arizona (1894), where his studies of Mars led him to believe that the planet was inhabited.
  • Abbott Lawrence,American educator and president (1909–1933) of Harvard University. He wrote Essays on Government (1889) and Conflicts of Principle (1932).
  • James Russell,American editor, poet, and diplomat. He edited the Atlantic Monthly (1857–1861) and served as US minister to Spain (1877–1880) and Great Britain (1880–1885).
  • Robert Traill Spence, Jr.,American poet whose works include Life Studies (1959) and The Dolphin (1973), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.
  • Amy Lawrence,American poet. A leader of the imagists, she wrote several volumes of poetry, including Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914).

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  • proper noun A surname, variant of Lovell.
  • proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)
  • noun United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916)
  • noun United States poet (1917-1977)
  • noun United States poet (1874-1925)

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