Lemaître

[ luh-me-truh ]

/ ləˈmɛ trə /

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noun

Fran·cois É·lie Jules

[frahn-swaey-leezhyl], /frɑ̃ˈswa eɪˈli ʒül/, 1835–1915, French critic and dramatist.

Ab·bé Georges É·douard

[French a-beyzhawrzh ey-dwar], /French aˈbeɪ ʒɔrʒ eɪˈdwar/, 1894–1966, Belgian astrophysicist and priest: formulated big-bang theory.

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Words nearby Lemaître

Lela, Leland, Leloir, Lely, LEM, Lemaître, Lemalu, leman, Le Mans, Lemass, LeMay

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How to use Lemaître in a sentence

While the ONDCP will continue its other studies, Lemaitre admits that something will be missing without this one.
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Rafael Lemaitre, communications director for the ONDCP, admits that ADAM was a very valuable resource.
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M. Ferdinand Lemaitre proposes to establish an aerostatic bridge between Calais and Dover.
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He had no perception then of Bourget's fear of hell, or of Lemaitre's want of moral equilibrium.
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Lemaitre was not deceived by the manager's sudden change of base.
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Lemaitre was so in love with the part that he used often to play it off the stage.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875|Various
Lemaitre did not often speak to his audience with so much submissiveness.
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British Dictionary definitions for Lemaître

Lemaître

/ (French ləmɛtr) /

noun

Abbé Georges (Édouard) (ʒɔrʒ). 1894–1966, Belgian astronomer and priest, who first proposed the big-bang theory of the universe (1927)

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