WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Eliot
    n 1: British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel
         prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of
         modern verse drama (1888-1965) [syn: Eliot, T. S.
         Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot]
    2: British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis
       of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880) [syn: Eliot,
       George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans]