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Stuart

Stuart

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A royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371 and England from 1603 to 1714
  • proper noun
  • /ˈstjuːərt/
: dinastía Estuardo
  • A Jacobite, too; one whose support of the Stuart cause had been more than slightly tinged with madness.

So how fitting for me to be an heir to the Stuarts, a royal lion that is now dead.

Examples

  • "I've heard that Charles Stuart has recently arrived in Paris," he said.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Then we got the the Stuarts who were Scottish.

  • Alice confirmed that J.E.B. Stuart had died in the Civil War.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Indian Superintendent John Stuart presided over the congress at Augusta in 1763.

    Academic text (2008)

  • John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill are among the liberal tradition's leading spokesmen.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The Stuarts were the last royal family to rule Scotland before the union with England.

  • Queen Anne was a member of the Stuart dynasty, known for her efforts to unify Britain.

  • The history of the Stuarts includes significant events like the English Civil War.

Surface Forms

Stuart main

Etymology

Stuart comes from the old word steward, which means 'keeper of the house' or 'manager'. The family were first royal stewards in Scotland and their name was first spelled Stewart and later written Stuart in French, so today Stuart names that royal family.