Wallace

[wol-is, waw-lis]

noun

1. Alfred Russel 1823–1913, English naturalist, explorer, and author.

2. George Corley 1919–98, U.S. politician: governor of Alabama 1963–67, 1971–79, and 1983–87.

3. Henry (Agard) 1888–1965, U.S. agriculturalist, author, and statesman: Secretary of Agriculture 1933–40; vice president of the U.S. 1941–45; Secretary of Commerce 1945–46.

4. Lewis Lew, 1827–1905, U.S. general and novelist.

5. Sir William. Also 1272?–1305, Scottish military leader and patriot.

6. (William Roy) DeWitt 1889–1981, and his wife, Lila Bell (Acheson), 1889–1984, U.S. magazine publishers.

7. a male given name: a Scottish family name meaning “Welshman, foreigner.”

Wallace

/ ˈwɒlɪs /

noun

1. Alfred Russel. 1823–1913, British naturalist, whose work on the theory of natural selection influenced Charles Darwin

2. Edgar. 1875–1932, English crime novelist

3. Sir Richard. 1818–90, English art collector and philanthropist. His bequest to the nation forms the Wallace Collection, London

4. Sir William. ?1272–1305, Scottish patriot, who defeated the army of Edward I of England at Stirling (1297) but was routed at Falkirk (1298) and later executed

Wallace

1. British naturalist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. Wallace spent eight years (1854–62) traveling in Malaysia and assembling evidence for his theories, which he sent to Darwin in England. Their findings were first presented to the public in 1858.

Example Sentences

I’ve been thinking about the samizdat from David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest.”

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Wallace previously said he was "deeply sorry for any distress" he caused and that he "never set out to harm or humiliate".

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At the heart of the fight that has shut the federal government are health-insurance subsidies that help people like Khadija B. Wallace—a swing voter in a battleground state.

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“I am publicly admitting that I took funds from the Presbyterian Church over an extended period,” Wallace wrote.

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The microbe used by Stephen Wallace, professor of chemical biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, was Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli.

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