WALDO Definition & Meaning

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Waldo

[ wawl-doh, wol- ]

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noun

Pierre or Peter, died c1217, French merchant and religious reformer, declared a heretic: founder of the Waldenses.

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noun

a gadget for manipulating objects by remote control

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Origin of Waldo¹

C20: named after Waldo F. Jones, inventor in a science-fiction story by Robert Heinlein

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The best definition of the American Dream I’ve ever encountered came from one of the founders of The Atlantic, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award went to Eva Victor for “Sorry, Baby,” a dark comedy about a young woman processing trauma.

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“We worked with Sydney Pollack. We worked with Waldo Salt. One of the requests that I made to Sundance was that in order to do ‘El Norte,’ we would have to bring professional actors together with nonactors.

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No matter the New York location or the soon-to-be-caught killer, Lawson ensures we can always see Elsbeth coming: “I just want you to follow Elsbeth wherever she goes. You know, ‘Where’s Waldo?’

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Sprinkled through the crowd like “Where’s Waldo” are the Chalamet look-alikes, reporters clambering to grab interviews and eventgoers enraptured with the allure of the Timmy variants.

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