Heywood

American  

[hey-wood] / ˈheɪ wʊd /

noun

1. John, 1497?–1580?, English dramatist and epigrammatist.

2. Thomas, 1573?–1641, English dramatist, poet, and actor.

3. a male given name.

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Heywood ¹ British  

/ ˈheɪˌwʊd /

noun

1. John. ?1497–?1580, English dramatist, noted for his comic interludes

2. Thomas. ?1574–1641, English dramatist, noted esp for his domestic drama A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607)

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Heywood ² British  

/ ˈheɪˌwʊd /

noun

1. a town in NW England, in Rochdale unitary authority, Greater Manchester, near Bury. Pop: 28 024 (2001))

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Example Sentences

For the foreseeable future, the right answer will be the current style of hybrid with a traditional engine, says James Heywood, who literally wrote the textbook on modern internal combustion engines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

By December 2018, Mr Heywood said messages indicated there was already a "close relationship between the two men".

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

“Anyone who knows Chauncey Billups knows he is a man of integrity,” attorney Chris Heywood said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

“Anyone who knows Chauncey Billups knows he is a man of integrity; men of integrity do not cheat and defraud others,” Chris Heywood, Billups’ attorney, said in a statement Tuesday night.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

There were already more than three hundred men squatting and kneeling on the top deck of the Heywood, rearranging their equipment in the dark—C rations, canteens, entrenching tools, gas masks, rounds of ammunition, steel helmets.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson