cecil

noun

1. (Edgar Algernon) Robert1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 1864–1958, British statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1937.
2. Robert1st Earl of Salisburyand1st Viscount Cecil of Cranborne, 1563–1612, British statesman (son of William Cecil).
3. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-. Salisbury(def 1).
4. William1st Baron Burghley or Burleigh, 1520–98, British statesman: adviser to Elizabeth I.
5. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “blind.”

noun

1. Lord David. 1902–86, English literary critic and biographer
2. Robert . See (3rd Marquess of) Salisbury 2
3. William. See (William Cecil) Burghley

masc. proper name, from Latin Caecilius (fem. Caecilia), name of a Roman gens, from caecus “blind.”