Definition: Meaning of, Cranmer, Thomas in English to English dictionary.
Pronunciation:/ ˈkranmə /
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(1489-1556) an English priest who was ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and who was one of the leaders of the REFORMATION (= the time when many Christians in Europe left the Catholic religion and started the Protestant religion) in England. When the Catholic Mary I became Queen of England, she ordered Cranmer to be killed by being burned.