Synge

[ sing ]

noun

1. John Mil·ling·ton [mil, -ing-t, uh, n], 1871–1909, Irish dramatist.
2. Richard Laurence Millington, 1914–96, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.

Synge

/ sɪŋ /

noun

1. SyngeJohn Millington18711909MIrishWRITING: playwright John Millington. 1871–1909, Irish playwright. His plays, marked by vivid colloquial Irish speech, include Riders to the Sea (1904) and The Playboy of the Western World, produced amidst uproar at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1907

Example Sentences

Synge’s short, eloquent book, published in 1907, remains Aran’s most vivid and accessible introduction.

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Fulle blisfully they synge and endles ioy thei make (wrongly); Gg.

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This is a very different thing from the dialogue of Congreve on the one hand or of J. M. Synge on the other.

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It was the chorus of imitative rapture over Synge a few years ago that helped most to bring about a speedy reaction against him.

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Synge was undoubtedly a man of fine genius—the genius of gloomy comedy and ironic tragedy.

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In the excitement of the fight they were soon talking about Synge as though Dublin had rejected a Shakespeare.

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