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Churchill

Churchill

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A British prime minister who led Britain in World War II and gave famous speeches
  • proper noun
  • /ˈtʃɜrʧɪl/
: Winston Churchill
  • Sir Anthony Eden went there to be married, attended by Sir Winston Churchill as his best man.
  • Winston Churchill
  • Prime Minister Churchill
  • Churchill and Roosevelt

President Zelensky, much like Churchill, saw clearly.

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Examples

  • Yes, it's just like Winston Churchill so famously said.

  • However, as Winston Churchill said, "Now this is not the end.

    Academic text (2012)
  • But at least now, because of reading, Churchill knew what that meant.

  • As Churchill said, that was perhaps the end of our beginning.

  • Do you know that Churchill was foremost a writer?

  • We know that Churchill had a wicked battle with depression.

  • President Zelensky, much like Churchill, saw clearly.

  • At the end of each chapter, readers are asked to "stand in Churchill's shoes" and make a decision.

    Academic text (2015)
  • By the way, Winston Churchill's house was named Chequers as well.

  • Winston Churchill was the British prime minister during World War II, famously rallying the nation with his speeches.

Synonyms

Winston Churchill
vsChurchill
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British leader and Prime Minister during World War II who won the Nobel Prize for writing

is the shorter single-word family name form used alone
Sir Winston Churchill
vsChurchill
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British Prime Minister who led Britain during the Second World War and gave famous speeches

drops the honorific and uses only the family name form
Winston S. Churchill
vsChurchill
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A British leader and writer who led the UK in World War II and won the Nobel Prize in Literature

omits the middle initial and uses only the family name

Compounds

A famous horse racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, where the Kentucky Derby takes place every year

Surface Forms

Churchill main

Morphology

Churchill = church + hill (opaque) = church + hill

Although historically formed from 'church' + 'hill', as a proper name referring to a person the meaning is not computable from the components for an average learner.

Etymology

Churchill comes from two old English words, church and hill, literally 'church' and 'hill'. It originally described a family or person who lived by a church on a hill, which is why Winston Churchill has that surname.