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Noun: Newman  n(y)oo-mun
  1. United States film actor (1925-2008)
    - Paul Newman, Paul Leonard Newman
     
  2. English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
    - John Henry Newman, Cardinal Newman

Type of: actor, archpriest, hierarch, high priest, histrion, player, prelate, primate, role player, theologian, theologiser [Brit], theologist, theologizer, thespian

Encyclopedia: Newman, New Mexico