MARY I

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)

Synonyms:

Bloody Mary; Mary I; Mary Tudor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)

Holonyms ("Mary I" is a member of...):

House of Tudor; Tudor (an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603))

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