Definition of Sir Walter Raleigh

1. Noun. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Seretse Khama
Sir Stephen Harold Spender
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan
Sir Thomas Gresham
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas Raffles
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Wyat
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Tim Rice
Sir Tom Stoppard
Sir Walter Norman Haworth
Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir Walter Raleigh (current term)
Sir Walter Scott
Sir William Alexander Craigie
Sir William Chambers
Sir William Crookes
Sir William Gerald Golding
Sir William Gilbert
Sir William Herschel
Sir William Huggins
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Turner Walton
Sir William Wallace
Sir William Walton
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sir Yehudi Menuhin

Literary usage of Sir Walter Raleigh

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829)
"... doe therefore by theis presents pardon remit and release the said sir Walter Raleigh of and from such execution of his judgement to bee drawne hanged ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1834)
"»т'M i"V From tlle Lee Priory Prcss- s¡r Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh, now first collected, ... Memoirs ftc. of Sir Walter Raleigh. Set CAYLEY, Arthur. ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"H. Sir Walter Raleigh. By EDMUND GOSSE In the England which was controlled by that Virgin Queen whom we have met here to commemorate, there were two ..."

4. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"of Sir Walter Raleigh came up to absorb his attention. A rare chance — as strange and sad as anything that the irony of human destiny can show — was offered ..."

5. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"Before James had profited by these warnings, however, the case of Sir Walter Raleigh came up to absorb his attention. A rare chance — as- strange and sad as ..."

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