Cecil

[ses-uhl, sis-, see-suhl]

noun

1. (Edgar Algernon) Robert 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 1864–1958, British statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1937.

2. Robert 1st Earl of Salisburyand1st Viscount Cecil of Cranborne, 1563–1612, British statesman (son of William Cecil).

3. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-. Salisbury.

4. William 1st Baron Burghley or Burleigh, 1520–98, British statesman: adviser to Elizabeth I.

5. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “blind.”

Cecil

/ ˈsɪs-, ˈsɛsəl /

noun

1. Lord David. 1902–86, English literary critic and biographer

2. Robert. See (3rd Marquess of) Salisbury 2

3. William. See (William Cecil) Burghley

Example Sentences

The Rand Club was founded a year later by mining magnates, including Cecil John Rhodes, who walked the future streets of Johannesburg and selected a corner for what he deemed an essential gentlemen’s club.

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The Golden Globes previously announced that Helen Mirren will be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the January ceremony, part of a celebratory “Golden Week” kicking off the awards season.

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"Understanding one unconventional superconductor very well may trigger our understanding of the rest," says Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT and senior author of the study.

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Richter credits Slater’s vision for the dominance of their social media game: “She’s the Cecil B. DeMille of our TikTok presence,” he said on a recent podcast episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend.”

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“The main driver behind more people working from their yacht is connectivity, and by that I mean Starlink,” says Henry Smith, a founding partner of the London yacht brokerage Cecil Wright.

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