shaw
noun
a small wood or thicket.
shaw
1 American
[shaw]
/ ʃɔ /
noun
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shaws
plural
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Midland U.S. a small wood or thicket.
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Scot. the stalks and leaves of potatoes, turnips, and other cultivated root plants.
Shaw
2
American
[shaw]
/ ʃɔ /
noun
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Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.
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Artie Arthur Arshawsky, 1910–2004, U.S. clarinetist and bandleader.
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George Bernard, 1856–1950, Irish dramatist, critic, and novelist: Nobel Prize 1925.
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Henry Wheeler. Billings, Josh.
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Irwin, 1913–84, U.S. dramatist and author.
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Richard Norman, 1831–1912, English architect, born in Scotland.
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Thomas Edward. Lawrence, Thomas Edward.
Shaw
1
British
/ ʃɔː /
noun
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Artie, original name Arthur Arshawsky. 1910–2004, US jazz clarinetist, band leader, and composer
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George Bernard, often known as GBS. 1856–1950, Irish dramatist and critic, in England from 1876. He was an active socialist and became a member of the Fabian Society but his major works are effective as satiric attacks rather than political tracts. These include Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), Pygmalion (1913), Back to Methuselah (1921), and St Joan (1923): Nobel prize for literature 1925
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Richard Norman. 1831–1912, English architect
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Thomas Edward. the name assumed by (T. E.) Lawrence after 1927
shaw
2
British
/ ʃɔː /
verb
noun
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a show
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the part of a potato plant that is above ground
shaw
3
British
/ ʃɔː /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of shaw
before 900; Middle English shawe, Old English sceaga, scaga; akin to shag 1
Example Sentences
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“You can see why luke shaw got a call from his old gaffer.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2015
Shaquille O'Neal, who played for the Cavs last season, posted on Twitter: "I think brian shaw should get interviewed for that cleveland cavaliers job, he's really good."
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2010
He's up in the world since he used to shaw turnips at Loranogie for sixpence a day!
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
I have mony steads in the forest shaw, But them by name I dinna knaw.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
Well, now, what should you think there could be to write down consarning a great cobble stone? or consarning a bit of a shaw, or a puddle of water?
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by Thomas De Quincey
The supporting cast, which also includes Fiona Shaw stealing every scene as the gossipy, generous Mrs. Jennings, is terrific.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Metro Mining is profitable, generating free cash with a strong balance sheet and will finish the year with a cash balance of A$60 million-A$70 million,” says Shaw.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Transport expert and author Prof Jon Shaw, of the University of Plymouth, says the idea of a "single guiding mind" should create "a better planned railway that's more aligned to the customer".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Last week, Dream president Morgan Shaw Parker said they were “finalizing details” on where the team’s home games will be played during the Finals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Dr. Shaw at first demurred; then let her have what she wanted.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
‘A man that uses fields an’ shaws after dark as much as I’ve done, he don’t go out of his road excep’ for keepers.’
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham
Strip the belly off ’e, an’, bone for bone, a lean man like me shaws as fair as you.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
Just shaws what strength lies in a darter, as I tell ’e.”
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
When shaws beene sheene, and shradds full fayre, And leaves both large and longe, Itt is merrye walkyng in the fayre forrest To heare the small birdes songe.
From The Book of Old English Ballads by Hamilton Wright Mabie
In gowany glens thy burnie strays, Where bonnie lasses bleach their claes; Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes, Wi’ hawthorns gray, Where blackbirds join the shepherd’s lays At close o’ day.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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