Eliot
n 1: British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel
prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of
modern verse drama (1888-1965) [syn: {Eliot}, {T. S.
Eliot}, {Thomas Stearns Eliot}]
2: British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis
of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880) [syn: {Eliot},
{George Eliot}, {Mary Ann Evans}]