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Gide

[ zheed ]

noun

  1. An·dré (Paul Guil·laume) [ah, n, -, drey, pawl gee-, yohm], 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.


Gide

/ ʒid /

noun

  1. GideAndré18691951MFrenchWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: criticWRITING: diarist André (ɑ̃dre). 1869–1951, French novelist, dramatist, critic, diarist, and translator, noted particularly for his exploration of the conflict between self-fulfilment and conventional morality. His novels include L'Immoraliste (1902), La Porte étroite (1909), and Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926): Nobel prize for literature 1947
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Gravity is very often mistakin for wisdum, but thare is as much differ as thare is between a gide board and the man who maid it.

She had let her little box of a house in London for the winter, and had intended to stay at Castle Gide for at least a month.

He himself told Monsieur Andr Gide a strange and pathetic story of those silent, unhappy hours.

He told M. Gide that prison had completely changed him, had taught him the meaning of pity.

M. André Gide, who called on him there almost as soon as he arrived, gives a fair mental picture of him at this time.

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