Udall

[yoo-dawl, yood-l]

noun

1. Also called Uvedale. Nicholas, 1505–56, English translator and playwright, especially of comedy.

2. Stewart Lee, 1920–2010, U.S. politician: Secretary of the Interior 1961–69.

Udall

/ ˈjuːdəl, ˈjuːvˌdeɪl, ˈjuːdəl /

noun

1. Nicholas. ?1505–56, English dramatist, whose comedy Ralph Roister Doister (?1553), modelled on Terence and Plautus, is the earliest known English comedy

Example Sentences

The U.S. secretary of the interior, Stewart Udall, happened to be visiting Russia, and Khrushchev summoned him for a talk.

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Udall was flown to Sochi and driven by car to the premier’s waterfront retreat.

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Khrushchev and Udall changed into swimsuits and walked down to the gravel beach.

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“Trump is assembling a palace of the most loyal guards,” said Michael Sozan, a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress, who worked for years in the Senate — including as chief of staff to former Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado — and has written extensively about the checks and balances in American government.

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Brad Udall, a climate scientist at Colorado State University, said that “at best, Trump’s win means a four-year hiatus on US domestic and international leadership on greenhouse gas reduction efforts. ... Unfortunately, the impacts are likely to last much longer than just four years given the way long-term investments and planning work in the energy sector.”

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