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Howard

[hou-erd]

noun

  1. Catherine, 1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.

  2. Sir Ebenezer, 1850–1928, English town planner.

  3. Henry. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.

  4. John Winston, born 1939, prime minister of Australia 1996–2007.

  5. Leslie Leslie Stainer, 1893–1943, English actor.

  6. Roy Wilson, 1883–1964, U.S. editor and newspaper publisher.

  7. Sidney (Coe) 1891–1939, U.S. playwright and short-story writer.

  8. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “brave heart.”



Howard

/ ˈʊə /

noun

  1. Catherine. ?1521–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England; beheaded

  2. Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham and 1st Earl of Nottingham. 1536–1624, Lord High Admiral of England (1585–1618). He commanded the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada (1588)

  3. Sir Ebenezer. 1850–1928, English town planner, who introduced garden cities

  4. See Surrey

  5. John. 1726–90, English prison reformer

  6. John Winston. born 1939, Australian politician; prime minister of Australia (1996–2007)

  7. Leslie. real name Leslie Howard Stainer. 1890–1943, British actor of Hungarian descent. His many films included The Scarlet Pimpernel (1938), Pygmalion (1938), and Gone With the Wind (1939)

  8. Trevor. 1916-88, British actor. His many films include Brief Encounter (1946), The Third Man (1949), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and White Mischief (1987)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The row started when Finch requested the flag be removed after he replaced Rob Howard as the authority's leader.

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As a teenager, she spent four years at Tampa's Howard W. Blake School of the Arts, after winning a place on the choral programme by performing Etta James' At Last.

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Howard implored his 3.7 million followers to share any information they might have about the incident.

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Speaking to the BBC earlier this month, Howard said he was "not intimidated" by the challenge of running a local authority with £1.5bn of assets and a revenue budget of about £500m.

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Howard echoes that sentiment in her website title: The World Needs More Pie.

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