Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun edward_iii

1 sense of edward iii

Sense 1
Edward, Edward III -- (son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377))
       INSTANCE OF=> King of England, King of Great Britain -- (the sovereign ruler of England)