FROST


Meaning of FROST in English

I . David Frost

(1939– )

an English television presenter. He first became famous during the 1960s when he presented the comedy news programme That Was The Week That Was . Since the 1960s he has had great success as a television journalist on both British and US television. His Sunday morning interview programme Breakfast with Frost has been on British television since 1992. He was made a knight in 1993.

II . Robert Frost

(1874–1963)

a US poet who won four Pulitzer Prizes . He is best known for his poems about the countryside. From 1912 to 1915 Frost lived in England where he wrote A Boy’s Will (1913). He then settled in the US state of New Hampshire and wrote about New England . His books of poetry include A Witness Tree (1942) and In the Clearing (1962). His best-known poems are Mending Wall and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening . At the age of 87, Frost read his poem A Gift Outright at the 1962 inauguration of John F Kennedy (= the ceremony at which he was formally made President).

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.