Waldo

[wawl-doh, wol-]

noun

1. Pierre or Peter, died c1217, French merchant and religious reformer, declared a heretic: founder of the Waldenses.

waldo

/ ˈwɔːldəʊ /

noun

1. a gadget for manipulating objects by remote control

Word History and Origins

Origin of Waldo¹

C20: named after Waldo F. Jones, inventor in a science-fiction story by Robert Heinlein

Example Sentences

“This room holds a lot of memories and I thank God every day for each and every one of them,” she wrote, before going on to share a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built of love and dreams.”

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As Ralph Waldo Emerson saw it, Brown’s death on the scaffold turned him into a “new Saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.”

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Waldo's shops are a common sight on Mexico high streets, with hundreds of outlets across the country.

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The blaze broke out on Saturday in the centre of the north-western city of Hermosillo at a branch of Waldo's - Mexico's largest discount chain.

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“It reminds me of ‘Where’s Waldo?’,” said Dowdy, 47, a former chef and a longtime tow-truck driver who branched into repossessions in 2014.

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