Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Noun: Francis Scott Key
  1. United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled 'The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)
    - Key

Type of: attorney, lawyer, poet

Encyclopedia: Francis Scott Key

Nearest

Francis Galton
Francis Henry Compton Crick
Francis Hopkinson
Francis II
Francis Joseph
Francis Joseph I
Francis of Assisi
Francis Peyton Rous
Francis Poulenc
Francis Richard Stockton
Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Francis Townsend
Francis turbine
Francis Turner Palgrave
Franciscan
Franciscan order
Franciscanism
Francisco de Goya
Francisco Fernandez Cordoba
Francisco Fernandez de Cordova