Saint Lawrence

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Saint Lawrence n usually abbreviated to: St Lawrence

a river in SE Canada, flowing northeast from Lake Ontario, forming part of the border between Canada and the US, to the Gulf of St Lawrence: commercially one of the most important rivers in the world as the easternmost link of the St Lawrence Seaway. Length: 1207 km (750 miles). Width at mouth: 145 km (90 miles)
Gulf of Saint Lawrence ⇒ a deep arm of the Atlantic off the E coast of Canada between Newfoundland and the mainland coasts of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia

Law•rence (lôr′əns, lor′-),USA pronunciation n.

Biographical D(avid) H(erbert), 1885–1930, English novelist.
Biographical Ernest O(rlando), 1901–58, U.S. physicist: inventor of the cyclotron;
Nobel prize 1939.
Biographical Gertrude, 1901?–52, English actress.
Biographical Jacob, born 1917, U.S. painter and educator.
Biographical James, 1781–1813, U.S. naval officer in the War of 1812.
Biographical Saint. Also, Lorenzo. Latin, Laurentius. died a.d. 258?, early church martyr.
Biographical Sir Thomas, 1769–1830, English painter.
Biographical T(homas) E(dward) (T. E. Shaw) ("Lawrence of Arabia''), 1888–1935, English archaeologist, adventurer, soldier, and writer.
Place Namesa city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. 63,175.
Place Namesa city in E Kansas, on the Kansas River. 52,738.
Place Namesa town in central Indiana. 25,591.
a male given name: from a Latin word meaning "a man of Laurentum.''

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