seymour

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Definition of seymour in English English dictionary

A male given name transferred from the surname

A surname

Benzer Seymour Bridges Robert Seymour Cray Seymour Roger Fonda Jane Seymour Hersh Seymour Myron Jane Seymour Lipset Seymour Martin Somerset Edward Seymour 1st duke of Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Walpole Sir Hugh Seymour

given name, male

A common surname

{i} family name; male first name; Jane Seymour (1509?-1537), Queen of England (1536-1537), third wife of Henry VIII who died after giving birth to Edward VI; Jane Seymour (born 1951), English born U.S. movie and television actress; name of several cities and towns in the United States (such as Seymour in Indiana; Seymour in Connecticut etc.); city in Australia

Queen of England as the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (1509-1537)

Related Terms

Seymour Benzer

born Oct. 15, 1921, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. molecular biologist. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He developed a method for determining the detailed structure of viral genes and coined the term cistron to denote functional subunits of genes. He did much to explain the nature of genetic oddities, called nonsense mutations, in terms of the nucleotide sequence of DNA, and he discovered a reversal, or suppression, of these mutations in certain bacteria

Seymour Hersh

born April 8, 1937, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. journalist. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1954. He began his journalistic career in 1959 as a police reporter, and he later worked for UPI and The New York Times and as a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. His report on the My Lai incident won him a 1970 Pulitzer Prize; he also wrote about domestic spying by the CIA and produced many other investigative reports. His The Dark Side of Camelot (1997) was a controversial, negative look at John F. Kennedy; Against All Enemies (1998) discussed the ailments suffered by Persian Gulf War veterans

Seymour Martin Lipset

born March 18, 1922, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. sociologist and political scientist. He received his bachelor's degree from the City College of New York and his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he later taught (1950-56). While teaching at the University of California, Berkeley (1956-66), he also served as director of its Institute of International Studies (1962-66). Since then he has taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, and George Mason University. His many books about class structure, elite behaviour, and political parties have significantly shaped the study of comparative politics

Seymour Myron Hersh

born April 8, 1937, Chicago, Ill., U.S. U.S. journalist. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1954. He began his journalistic career in 1959 as a police reporter, and he later worked for UPI and The New York Times and as a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. His report on the My Lai incident won him a 1970 Pulitzer Prize; he also wrote about domestic spying by the CIA and produced many other investigative reports. His The Dark Side of Camelot (1997) was a controversial, negative look at John F. Kennedy; Against All Enemies (1998) discussed the ailments suffered by Persian Gulf War veterans

Seymour R Cray

born Sept. 28, 1925, Chippewa Falls, Wis., U.S. died Oct. 5, 1996, Colorado Springs, Colo. U.S. electronics engineer. He worked in the 1950s on the UNIVAC I, a landmark first-generation digital computer, and he led the design of the world's first transistor-based computer (the CDC 1604). In 1972 he founded Cray Research, Inc., and there built the fastest and most powerful supercomputers in the world, using his innovative multiprocessing design. The Cray-2 (1985) could perform 1.2 billion calculations per second, an incredible pace in its day

Seymour Roger Cray

born Sept. 28, 1925, Chippewa Falls, Wis., U.S. died Oct. 5, 1996, Colorado Springs, Colo. U.S. electronics engineer. He worked in the 1950s on the UNIVAC I, a landmark first-generation digital computer, and he led the design of the world's first transistor-based computer (the CDC 1604). In 1972 he founded Cray Research, Inc., and there built the fastest and most powerful supercomputers in the world, using his innovative multiprocessing design. The Cray-2 (1985) could perform 1.2 billion calculations per second, an incredible pace in its day

Arthur Seymour Sullivan

{i} Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900), English operettas composer who worked together with the librettist William Gilbert on a well-known series of comic operettas

Edward Seymour 1st duke of Somerset

born 1500/06 died Jan. 22, 1552, London, Eng. English politician. After his sister, Jane Seymour, married King Henry VIII in 1536, Somerset rose rapidly in royal favour. He commanded the English forces that invaded Scotland and sacked Edinburgh in 1544, and he decisively defeated the French at Boulogne in 1545. After Henry's death (1547), he was named Protector of England during the minority of Edward VI and acted as king in all but name. When the Scots rejected his appeal for a voluntary union with England, he invaded Scotland and won the Battle of Pinkie (1547). He introduced moderate Protestant reforms, but these provoked Catholic uprisings in western England. His land reforms were opposed by landowners and the duke of Northumberland, who had Somerset deposed from the protectorate in 1549. He was imprisoned in 1551 on a flimsy charge of treason and executed the next year

Jane Seymour

born 1509?, England died Oct. 24, 1537, Hampton Court, London Third wife of Henry VIII of England. A lady-in-waiting to Henry's wives Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, she first attracted Henry's attention 1535 but refused to be his mistress. This probably hastened Anne Boleyn's downfall and execution (1536), after which Jane and Henry were married privately. She restored Henry's daughter Mary (later Mary I) to his favour and gave birth to his only male heir, the future Edward VI, but she died 12 days later, to Henry's genuine sorrow

Jane Seymour

{i} (1509-1537) Queen of England (1536-1537) and third wife of king Henry VIII who died after giving birth to Edward VI

Jane Seymour

{i} (born 1951 under the name: Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg) English born U.S. movie and television actress

Jane Seymour Fonda

born Dec. 21, 1937, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. film actress, political activist, and fitness enthusiast. The daughter of actor Henry Fonda, she made her film debut in Tall Story (1960), which began a career that took dizzying turns. After playing comic roles in such films as Cat Ballou (1965) and Barefoot in the Park (1967), she appeared as a sex kitten in husband Roger Vadim's (married 1965-73) futuristic Barbarella (1968). She then plunged into leftist political activity, marrying the activist Tom Hayden (married 1973-89) and loudly condemning the Vietnam War, and made socially conscious films including They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Klute (1971, Academy Award), and Coming Home (1978, Academy Award). She later marketed a series of hugely popular exercise books and videotapes. After marrying Ted Turner in 1991 (divorced 2001), she retired from the screen

Robert Seymour Bridges

born Oct. 23, 1844, Walmer, Kent, Eng. died April 21, 1930, Boar's Hill, Oxford English poet. He published several long poems and poetic dramas, but his reputation rests on the lyrics collected in Shorter Poems (1890, 1894), which reveal his mastery of prosody. His 1916 edition of the poetry of his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins rescued it from obscurity. He was poet laureate of England from 1913 until his death

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan

born May 13, 1842, London, Eng. died Nov. 22, 1900, London British composer. He attended the Royal Academy and the Leipzig Conservatory, then supported himself by teaching, playing organ, and composing for provincial festivals. His music for The Tempest (1861) achieved great success and was followed by his Irish Symphony (1866) and songs such as "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord." In 1871 he first collaborated in comic opera with playwright W.S. Gilbert, and in 1875 their Trial by Jury became a hit, setting the course for both their careers. Their collaboration continued with The Sorceror (1877), H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), Patience (1881), Iolanthe (1882), Princess Ida (1883), The Mikado (1885), Ruddigore (1887), The Yeomen of the Guard (1888), The Gondoliers (1889), and others, many of which would continue to delight international audiences for more than a century

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole

born March 13, 1884, Auckland, N.Z. died June 1, 1941, near Keswick, Cumberland, Eng. British novelist, critic, and dramatist. A natural storyteller, Walpole turned to writing and reviewing books after unsuccessful attempts at teaching and lay reading in the Anglican church. Among his important novels is the semiautobiographical series that includes Jeremy (1919), Jeremy and Hamlet (1923), and Jeremy at Crale (1927). The Herries Chronicle, about an English country family, comprises Rogue Herries (1930), Judith Paris (1931), The Fortress (1932), and Vanessa (1933). He also wrote critical works on Anthony Trollope, Walter Scott, and Joseph Conrad

Hyphenation

Sey·mour

Turkish pronunciation

simôr

Pronunciation

/ˈsēmôr/ /ˈsiːmɔːr/

Etymology

() Norman surname from a place in Normandy, Old French Saint-Maur, "Saint Maurus". Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.