Olivier

[oh-liv-ee-ey]

noun

1. Laurence (Kerr) Baron Olivier of Brighton, 1907–89, English actor and director.

Olivier

/ əˈlɪvɪˌeɪ /

noun

1. Laurence ( Kerr ), Baron Olivier of Brighton. 1907–89, English stage, film, and television actor and director: director of the National Theatre Company (1961–73): films include the Shakespeare adaptations Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), and Richard III (1956)

Example Sentences

Mr De Wet said he was asked by Mr Olivier to help him throw the body inside the enclosure where eight to ten big adult pigs were kept.

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And then there were moments of “11,000 Strings” that sounded like the musical aviaries of Olivier Messiaen emanating from a far away lath house.

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“A dissolution will be hard to avoid,” said Olivier Rouquan, a researcher at the Paris-based Study and Research Center for Administrative and Political Sciences.

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“A dissolution will not solve the problem,” said Olivier Costa, a research professor at the Paris-based Sciences Po university and France’s National Center for Scientific Research.

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But Socialist leader Olivier Faure emerged from a meeting with Lecornu earlier Wednesday, lamenting that the premier had "given no assurance" on a key request, that a hotly contested 2023 pension reform would be suspended.

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