Soames
Proper noun
Meaning
Soames (plural Soameses)
A surname.
Examples
1949 movie A 1949 adaptation, called That Forsyte Woman in its United States release, starred Errol Flynn as Soames, Greer Garson as Irene, Walter Pidgeon as Young Jolyon, and Robert Young as Philip Bosinney.
Churchill's grandson, Nicholas Soames, said covering up his statue in Parliament Square was a national humiliation.
Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918) In a short interlude after The Man of Property, Galsworthy delves into the newfound friendship between Irene and Old Jolyon Forsyte (June's grandfather, and by now the owner of the house Soames had built).
Once Soames, Jolyon, and Irene discover their romance, they forbid their children to see each other again.
Once they grow old and their children can overcome their parents' past, Soames can finally let go of the past.
She resists his grasping intentions, falls in love with the architect Philip Bosinney who has been engaged by Soames to build the house and has an affair with him.