Claude

[ klawd; French klohd ]

/ klɔd; French kloʊd /

noun

Albert,1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.

Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”

Example sentences from the Web for claude

Some of these critics, notably Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Eric Rohmer, later became filmmakers of international repute.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days |David Freeman |December 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The first commission member to be forced out was Claude Peterson, a Vietnam vet who had signed the petition.

In 2005, ‘Iowa Nice’ Ernst Helped to Oust Veterans From Local Board After They Opposed Her Candidacy |Ben Jacobs |October 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss saw the Amazon rainforest, as he saw most things, as a complex structure.

Exploring the Amazon, While We Still Can |Darrell Hartman |May 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
As we were getting ready to repair to his capacious table, we were joined by Claude Lanzmann, the maker of the film Shoah.

My Moments With Ariel Sharon |Seth Lipsky |January 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

“We remain very opposed to the sexualisation of children and of childhood,” says Kidscape red Claude Knight.

The Misplaced Outrage Over Gwyneth Paltrow’s Bikinis for Little Girls |Jessica Grose |April 24, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Claude stood in the midst of a large circle of well-wishers.

The Shadow of a Sin |Bertha M. Clay
Claude Lorraine, on the contrary, was convinced that taking nature as he found it seldom produced beauty.

Seven Discourses on Art |Joshua Reynolds
He summoned Claude Perrault and ordered him to begin work at once.

Old and New Paris, v. 1 |Henry Sutherland Edwards
They had seemed interested, sympathetic, as if they really cared about Claude's talent and the opera.

The Way of Ambition |Robert Hichens
When Mahoudeau had been complimented, he told Claude that he had searched for his picture in vain.

His Masterpiece |Emile Zola

British Dictionary definitions for claude

Claude

/ (klɔːd, French klod) /

noun

Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria

Medical definitions for claude

Claude

[ klōd ]

Albert 1899-1983

Belgian-born American biologist who was among the first to use the electron microscope for biological research. He shared a 1974 Nobel Prize for developing methods of separating and analyzing cell components.

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