wallace   (TTS Sound)

The noun wallace has 3 senses

• Wallace, Sir William Wallace -- (Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305))


• Wallace, Edgar Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace -- (English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932))


• Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace -- (English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913))