Woodward

[wood-werd]

noun

1. C(omer) Vann, 1908–99, U.S. historian.

2. Robert Burns, 1917–79, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1965.

3. a town in northwestern Oklahoma.

Woodward

/ ˈwʊdwəd /

noun

1. Sir Clive . born 1956, English Rugby Union player and subsequently (1997–2004) coach of the England team that won the Rugby World Cup in 2003.

2. R ( obert ) B ( urns ). 1917–79, US chemist. For his work on the synthesis of quinine, strychnine, cholesterol, and other organic compounds he won the Nobel prize for chemistry 1965

Example Sentences

While Felt never got the top job, he is now remembered as the prized anonymous source “Deep Throat,” who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their Pulitzer Prize-winning Watergate investigation.

From Salon

By 1997 Mitchell was in the England camp, specialising in defence under the leadership of Sir Clive Woodward.

From BBC

Then Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman’s better half, suggested Robert Redford and the rest is history.

From Los Angeles Times

But in 1974, Redford bought the film rights to All the President's Men, an account of the Watergate scandal by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - the two Washington Post reporters who uncovered it.

From BBC

PC Richard Woodward, a traffic officer with Cheshire Police for 19 years, says impatience from other road users towards learner drivers and their instructors is growing.

From BBC