Definition of Thomas Gray

1. Noun. English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771).

Exact synonyms: Gray
Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas Gray

Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bradley
Thomas Carew
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Clayton Wolfe
Thomas Crawford
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas Decker
Thomas Dekker
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edward Lawrence
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gray (current term)
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hastings
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Higginson
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Huxley
Thomas J. Hanks
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas Jackson
Thomas Jefferson

Literary usage of Thomas Gray

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

1. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1860)
"Thomas Gray, of all English poets the most finished artist, was born in London, in 1716, and was the only one of twelve children who survived the period of ..."

2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"Thomas Gray (1716- 1771) was the son of Philip Gray, a scrivener, and his wife Dorothy Antrobus; he was born in Cornhill on the ..."

3. Pennsylvania Archivesby Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1898)
"Daniel Gray, William Gobin, Charles Goodheart, Henry Grant, Thomas Gray, Robert Geary, Thomas Gibson, Thomas Acres. Date of Survey. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1814)
"The Works of Thomas Gray, with the Memoirs of his Life and Writings, by William Mason; to which are sub- joined, Extracts Philological, Poetical, ..."

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