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Waldo

[ wawl-doh, wol- ]

noun

  1. Pierre or Peter, died c1217, French merchant and religious reformer, declared a heretic: founder of the Waldenses.


waldo

/ ˈɔːəʊ /

noun

  1. a gadget for manipulating objects by remote control
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Waldo1

C20: named after Waldo F. Jones, inventor in a science-fiction story by Robert Heinlein
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For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

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Police officers were directed to the back of a residence in the 5300 hundred block of Waldo Place, where one of the suspects was seen running.

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Although 17 years have passed since the Latin American cyberpunk film debuted at Sundance — where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Prize — its political relevance has not waned.

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The best definition of the American Dream I’ve ever encountered came from one of the founders of The Atlantic, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award went to Eva Victor for “Sorry, Baby,” a dark comedy about a young woman processing trauma.

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