Stoppard

American  

[stop-erd] / ˈstɒp ərd /

noun

1. Tom Thomas Straussler, born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.

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Stoppard British  

/ ˈstɒpɑːd /

noun

1. Sir Tom, original name Thomas Straussler born 1937, British playwright, born in Czechoslovakia: his works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967), Travesties (1974), Hapgood (1988), The Invention of Love (1997), and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2002)

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Example Sentences

Unlike “Shakespeare in Love,” the script doesn’t have Tom Stoppard punching up the dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Milne, like Lewis Carroll, was trained as a mathematician, and some of his dialogue reads like Tom Stoppard doing Wittgenstein: “How are you?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Mr. Stoppard insisted, through his works, that theater could and should engage with ideas, with philosophy, with the vast knowledge amassed by writers and thinkers of many ages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

There his mother met and married an Englishman, a Major Kenneth Stoppard, before moving to England.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

Chuck Stoppard asked from his bed, where he lay playing a video game.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley