Howard

(ho̵uərd)

noun

a masculine name: dim. Howie

Origin: < the surname Howard

  1. Howard, Catherine 1520?-42; 5th wife of Henry VIII of England: beheaded
  2. Howard, Roy Wilson 1883-1964; U.S. editor & newspaper publisher
  3. Howard, Sidney Coe 1891-1939; U.S. playwright

See Howard in American Heritage Dictionary 4

, Catherine 1520?-1542.

Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII (1540-1542). She was accused of adultery and subsequently executed.

, Henry. First Earl of Surrey. 1517?-1547.

English poet and soldier remembered for his sonnets and his translations of two books of Virgil's Aeneid. In 1547 he was falsely charged with treason and executed.

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