theodore

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Definition of theodore in English English dictionary

A male given name; the name of a saint, pope, several emperors and a president

It is as well certainly not to call a parcel of idle and ragged young rogues by the titles of Augustus, Orlando, and Theodore: nor does it sound very fitting and heroical to hear a father cry out pompously to his little boy, as we did once, - You, Sir, there, - Maximilian,- come out of the gutter..

the name of a saint, pope, several emperors and a president

Agnew Spiro Theodore Avery Oswald Theodore Delacour Jean Theodore Delius Frederick Theodore Albert Dreiser Theodore Herman Albert Ely Richard Theodore Frelinghuysen Frederick Theodore Holst Gustavus Theodore von Indy Paul Marie Theodore Vincent d' Kaczynski Theodore Kármán Theodore von Theodore Navarro Roethke Theodore Theodore Walter Rollins Roosevelt Theodore Seaborg Glenn Theodore Theodore II Theodore I Lascaris Theodore of Canterbury Saint Theodore of Mopsuestia Theodore Roosevelt National Park Weld Theodore Dwight White Theodore Harold Theodore Samuel Williams Theodore Shaw Wilson

{i} male first name

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Theodore Dreiser

{i} (1871-1945) United States novelist

Theodore Christianson

{i} (1883-1948) United States politician, governor of Minnesota from 1925 to 1931

Theodore Dreiser

a US writer who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy (1871-1945). born Aug. 27, 1871, Terre Haute, Ind., U.S. died Dec. 28, 1945, Hollywood, Calif. U.S. novelist. Born to poor German immigrant parents, Dreiser left home at age 15 for Chicago. He worked as a journalist, and in 1894 he moved to New York, where he had a successful career as a magazine editor and publisher. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), about a young kept woman who goes unpunished for her transgressions, was denounced as scandalous. His subsequent novels would confirm his reputation as the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism. After the success of Jennie Gerhardt (1911), he began writing full-time, producing a trilogy consisting of The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914), and The Stoic (published 1947), which was followed by The Genius (1915) and its sequel, The Bulwark (published 1946). An American Tragedy (1925), based on a murder trial and itself the basis for the 1931 film by that name and for a 1951 film entitled A Place in the Sun, made him a hero among social reformers

Theodore Dwight Weld

born Nov. 23, 1803, Hampton, Conn., U.S. died Feb. 3, 1895, Hyde Park, Mass. U.S. reformer. He left divinity studies to become an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society (1834). His pamphlets The Bible Against Slavery (1837) and Slavery as It Is (1839) helped convert figures such as James Birney, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe to the antislavery cause. He married his coworker Angelina Grimké (1838), and they directed schools and taught in New Jersey and Massachusetts. In 1841-43 Weld organized an antislavery reference bureau in Washington, D.C., to assist congressmen seeking to repeal the gag rule restricting the consideration of antislavery petitions in Congress

Theodore H White

born May 6, 1915, Boston, Mass., U.S. died May 15, 1986, New York, N.Y. U.S. journalist, historian, and novelist. White became one of Time magazine's first foreign correspondents, serving in East Asia (1939-45) and later as a European correspondent. He is best known for his accounts of two presidential elections, The Making of the President, 1960 (1961, Pulitzer Prize) and The Making of the President, 1964 (1965), and for associating the short-lived presidency of John F. Kennedy with the legend of Camelot. His intimate style of journalism, centring on the personalities of his subjects, strongly influenced the course of political journalism and campaign coverage

Theodore Harold White

born May 6, 1915, Boston, Mass., U.S. died May 15, 1986, New York, N.Y. U.S. journalist, historian, and novelist. White became one of Time magazine's first foreign correspondents, serving in East Asia (1939-45) and later as a European correspondent. He is best known for his accounts of two presidential elections, The Making of the President, 1960 (1961, Pulitzer Prize) and The Making of the President, 1964 (1965), and for associating the short-lived presidency of John F. Kennedy with the legend of Camelot. His intimate style of journalism, centring on the personalities of his subjects, strongly influenced the course of political journalism and campaign coverage

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser

born Aug. 27, 1871, Terre Haute, Ind., U.S. died Dec. 28, 1945, Hollywood, Calif. U.S. novelist. Born to poor German immigrant parents, Dreiser left home at age 15 for Chicago. He worked as a journalist, and in 1894 he moved to New York, where he had a successful career as a magazine editor and publisher. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), about a young kept woman who goes unpunished for her transgressions, was denounced as scandalous. His subsequent novels would confirm his reputation as the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism. After the success of Jennie Gerhardt (1911), he began writing full-time, producing a trilogy consisting of The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914), and The Stoic (published 1947), which was followed by The Genius (1915) and its sequel, The Bulwark (published 1946). An American Tragedy (1925), based on a murder trial and itself the basis for the 1931 film by that name and for a 1951 film entitled A Place in the Sun, made him a hero among social reformers

Theodore I Lascaris

born 1174 died November 1221, Nicaea, Nicaean empire First emperor of Nicaea, the Byzantine government-in-exile during the Crusaders' occupation of Constantinople. He distinguished himself during the sieges of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade (1203-04). After the Byzantine capital fell, he gathered a band of refugees, first at Brusa and then at Nicaea, and formed a new Byzantine state. He took the title of emperor in 1208 and successfully defended Nicaea against the Crusaders, the Turks, and his rival emperor David Comnenus. He signed a treaty ( 1214) with the Latin emperor of Constantinople defining Nicaea's boundaries and betrothed his daughter to the heir to the Latin imperial throne

Theodore John Kaczynski

{i} birth name of Ted Kaczynski, "Unabomber" (born 1942), anti-technology man who sent several mail bombs to universities and airlines in the United States (starting in the late 1970s to early 1990s) before being caught by the FBI in April 1996 (he was sentenced to life in prison in May 1998)

Theodore Kaczynski

Unabomber. known as the Unabomber born May 22, 1942, Evergreen Park, Ill., U.S. U.S. criminal. He attended Harvard University and earned a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He taught at the University of California-Berkeley (1967-69) then abruptly left for rural Montana, where he lived in a tiny, isolated shack. Over a period of 17 years, he sent mail bombs to people he perceived as enemies of humanity, most of them professors and researchers in science and technology, killing 3 people and injuring

Theodore Kaczynski

His manifesto excoriating industrial society was published widely in 1995. Arrested in 1996 on a tip from his younger brother, he was sentenced to life in prison

Theodore Roethke

born May 25, 1908, Saginaw, Mich., U.S. died Aug. 1, 1963, Bainbridge Island, Wash. U.S. poet. He was educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. He later taught at several colleges and universities, notably the University of Washington (1947-63). His verse, characterized by introspection and intense lyricism, is collected in volumes such as Open House (1941), The Waking (1953, Pulitzer Prize), Words for the Wind (1957, Bollingen Prize, National Book Award), and The Far Field (1964, National Book Award). His later career was interrupted by hospitalizations for manic depression

Theodore Roosevelt

(1858-1919) 26th president of the United States (1901-1909), winner of the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize

Theodore Roosevelt

a US politician in the Republican Party who was the 26th president of the US, from 1901 to 1909. He became famous for his military achievements during the Spanish-American War of 1898, when he formed and led a group of soldiers called the "Rough Riders" in Cuba. During his period as president, the US organized the building of the Panama Canal, and Roosevelt described US foreign policy using the phrase "Speak softly and carry a big stick". He was informally called Teddy Roosevelt, and the teddy bear (=a soft toy bear) is named after him (1858-1919). known as Teddy Roosevelt born Oct. 27, 1858, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Jan. 6, 1919, Oyster Bay, N.Y. 26th president of the U.S. (1901-09). He was elected to the New York legislature (1882), where he became a Republican leader opposed to the Democratic political machine. After political defeats and the death of his wife, he went to the Dakota Territory to ranch. He returned to New York to serve on the U.S. Civil Service Commission (1889-95) and as head of the city's board of police commissioners (1895-97). A supporter of William McKinley, he served as assistant secretary of the navy (1897-98). When the Spanish-American War was declared, he resigned to organize a cavalry unit, the Rough Riders. He returned to New York a hero and was elected governor in 1899. As the Republican vice-presidential nominee, he took office when McKinley was reelected, and he became president on McKinley's assassination in 1901. One of his early initiatives was to urge enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act against business monopolies. He won election in his own right in 1904, defeating Alton Parker. At his urging, Congress regulated railroad rates and passed the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906) to protect public health. He created national forests and set aside mineral, oil, and coal deposits for conservation. He and secretary of state Elihu Root announced the Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which reasserted the U.S.'s position as protector of the Western Hemisphere. For mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War, he received the 1906 Nobel Prize for Peace. He secured a treaty with Panama for construction of a trans-isthmus canal. Declining to seek reelection, he secured the nomination for William H. Taft. After traveling in Africa and Europe, he tried to win the Republican presidential nomination in 1912; when he was rejected, he organized the Bull Moose Party and ran on a policy of New Nationalism. Though he lost the election, he secured 88 electoral votes the most successful third-party candidacy in the 20th century. Throughout his life he continued to write, publishing extensively on history, politics, travel, and nature. See also Big Stick policy; Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Preserve, west-central North Dakota, U.S. Established in 1947, it commemorates Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's interest in the American West. The 110-sq-mi (285-sq-km) park contains several sites along the Little Missouri River, including a petrified forest, Wind Canyon, eroded badlands, and Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch cabin

Theodore of Mopsuestia

born 350, Antioch, Syria died 428/429, Mopsuestia, Cilicia Syrian theologian and spiritual head of the school of Antioch. He entered a monastery near Antioch, where he lived and studied until 378. He was ordained in 381 and became bishop of Mopsuestia 392. His exegetical writings used scientific, critical, philological, and historical methods of analysis that anticipated modern scholarship. Theologically, he believed that Christ had two natures, divine and human, in some kind of union. He stressed the literal sense of scripture and opposed allegorical interpretations. The second Council of Constantinople (553) condemned his views, but he was venerated by the Nestorian church as "the Interpreter." He is said to have introduced into the Nestorian church the doctrine of universal salvation

theodore roosevelt memorial national park

a national park in North Dakota that includes the site of former President Theodore Roosevelt's ranch

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius

born Jan. 29, 1862, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng. died June 10, 1934, Grez-sur-Loing, France British-born French composer. Born to German parents in England, he studied music in Leipzig and elsewhere, and in 1887 Edvard Grieg convinced his parents to let him pursue a musical career. He moved to France, eventually settling in a village near Paris. After World War I he gradually succumbed to paralysis and blindness, the consequence of syphilis. His works, influenced by Claude Debussy, include the operas A Village Romeo and Juliet (1901) and Fennimore and Gerda (1910); the tone poems Brigg Fair (1907) and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (1912); and the choral works Appalachia (1903) and A Mass of Life (1908)

Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen

born Aug. 4, 1817, Millstone, N.J., U.S. died May 20, 1885, Newark, N.J. U.S. politician. Born into a prominent political family, he helped found the New Jersey Republican Party and served as state attorney general (1861-66). He was appointed, then elected, to the U.S. Senate (1866-69, 1871-77). As secretary of state (1881-85) he obtained Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a U.S. naval base and opened treaty relations with Korea (1882)

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

born April 19, 1912, Ishpeming, Mich., U.S. died Feb. 25, 1999, Lafayette, Calif. U.S. nuclear chemist. Born to Swedish parents, he pursued graduate study at the University of California at Berkeley. Working with John Livingood, Emilio Segré, and others, he discovered some 100 isotopes, including many that would prove to be of major importance, such as iodine-131 and technetium-99. However, his best-known work would involve the isolation and identification of transuranium elements. In 1941 he and his colleagues discovered plutonium. He went on to discover and isolate the elements americum, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, and nobelium (atomic numbers 95-102). He joined the Manhattan Project in 1942 and was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb, which he pleaded unsuccessfully with Pres. Truman not to use on civilian targets. He shared a 1951 Nobel Prize with Edwin Mattison McMillan (1907-91). Prediction of new elements' chemical properties and placement in the periodic table was helped greatly by an important organizing principle enunciated by Seaborg, the actinide concept. He served as head of the Atomic Energy Commission (1961-71). A strong advocate of nuclear disarmament, he led the negotiations that eventuated in the Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (1963) and later played a leading role in the passage of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. In 1997 his name was given to the new element seaborgium, the first time a living person had been so honoured

Gustavus Theodore von Holst

born Sept. 21, 1874, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Eng. died May 25, 1934, London British composer. The son of an organist, he studied at the Royal College of Music. There he met Ralph Vaughan Williams, who became a friend for life. He made his living first by playing trombone, then as a teacher. Always frail, after a collapse in 1923 he gave up teaching to devote the rest of his life to composition. His most popular piece is the vividly orchestrated suite The Planets (1916); other works include the charming St. Paul's Suite for strings (1913), the Hymn of Jesus (1917), and the Choral Fantasia (1930)

Jean Theodore Delacour

born , Sept. 26, 1890, Paris, Fr. died Nov. 5, 1985, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. French-born U.S. aviculturist. After his boyhood collection of more than 1,300 live birds was destroyed during World War I, he made expeditions worldwide and assembled a huge new collection at the Château de Clères in Normandy. He bred pheasants in captivity, discovered and named many new bird and mammal species, founded the magazine L'Oiseau (1920), and wrote the standard work The Birds of French Indochina (1931). When the Germans again destroyed his aviary, he emigrated to the U.S., but he later reestablished his aviary and zoo at Clères

Oswald Theodore Avery

born Oct. 21, 1877, Halifax, N.S., Can. died Feb. 20, 1955, Nashville, Tenn., U.S. Canadian-born U.S. bacteriologist. He studied at Colgate University before taking a post at New York's Rockefeller Institute Hospital. There he discovered transformation, a process by which a change could be introduced into bacteria and passed on to later generations of transformed cells. He and his coworkers reported in 1944 that the substance that caused the transformation was DNA, the cell's genetic material. The discovery thus opened the door to deciphering the genetic code

Paul-Marie-Theodore- Vincent d' Indy

v. born March 27, 1851, Paris, France died Dec. 1, 1931, Paris French composer and teacher. Trained in organ and composition, he rejected the prevailing French style as frivolous by comparison with the German musical tradition. He wrote several important stage works, including Fervaal (1895) and The Legend of Saint Christopher (1915), but orchestral works such as Symphony on a French Mountain Air (1886), Summer Day in the Mountains (1905), and Istar (1896) remain better known. In 1894 he cofounded the music academy called the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where many of France's foremost composers and musicians would be trained

Richard Theodore Ely

born April 13, 1854, Ripley, N.Y., U.S. died Oct. 4, 1943, Old Lyme, Conn. U.S. economist. He studied at Columbia University and the University of Heidelberg. His career interests focused on labour unrest, agricultural economics, and the problems of rural poverty. He taught at Johns Hopkins University (1881-92) but resigned in the face of harsh opposition to his ideas on academic freedom and the labour movement. He was a founder of the American Economic Association (1885). At the University of Wisconsin (1892-1925), he helped create Wisconsin's progressive program of social reform legislation

Saint Theodore of Canterbury

born 602, Tarsus, Cilicia, Asia Minor died Sept. 19, 690, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.; feast day September 19 Seventh archbishop of Canterbury (668-690). He was sent from Rome to Canterbury, where he helped establish a famous school at the monastery later known as St. Augustine's. Theodore organized and centralized the English church, calling its first general synod (672) to end Celtic practices, affirm church doctrine, and divide dioceses. He deposed Wilfrid as bishop of York in 677 but restored him in 686; he also made peace between King Aethelred of Mercia and King Ecgfrith of Northumbia

Spiro Theodore Agnew

born Nov. 9, 1918, Baltimore, Md., U.S. died Sept. 17, 1996, Berlin, Md. U.S. politician, the only vice president forced to resign. He studied law at the University of Baltimore and began a law practice in a Baltimore suburb in 1947. He was elected Baltimore county executive in 1962 and then governor of Maryland in 1967. In 1968 and 1972 he was elected vice president on the Republican ticket headed by Richard Nixon. His sometimes colourful denunciations of Vietnam War protesters and other opponents of the Nixon administration brought him much attention in the news media. Investigated for extortion, bribery, and income-tax violations allegedly committed during his governorship, he resigned the vice presidency in 1973 and pleaded no contest to a single income-tax charge. He was fined $10,000 and sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation. Disbarred in 1974, he became a consultant to foreign businesses

Theodor

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Theodor

{i} male first name

Hyphenation

The·o·dore

Turkish pronunciation

thiıdôr

Pronunciation

/ˈᴛʜēəˌdôr/ /ˈθiːəˌdɔːr/

Etymology

() From the Ancient Greek Θεόδωρος (Theodoros, “gift of god”).