On Oct 9,2009 Barack Hussein Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after just eight and a half months at the White House. Did the Nobel Prize committee award the prize more out of awe for the enormous promise that Obama beholds rather than recog...
Dictionary entry overview: What does acrimony mean? â¢ ACRIMONY (noun) The noun ACRIMONY has 1 sense: 1. a rough and bitter manner Familiarity information: ACRIMONY used as a noun is very rare.
An eponym is a person, a place, or thing for whom or for which something is named, or believed to be named. For example, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era. In science and technology, discoveries and innovations are often named after the discoverer or a figure influential in their advance. 2  Examples are Avogadro's number, the Diesel engine, meitnerium, Alzheimer's disease, and the Apgar score.