Synge

[ sing ]

/ sɪŋ /

noun

John Mil·ling·ton

[mil-ing-tuh n] /ˈmɪl ɪŋ tən/,1871–1909, Irish dramatist.

Richard Laurence Millington,1914–96, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.

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And this is from the unfinished second act, that Synge thought would scarcely be worth preserving.

Irish Plays and Playwrights |Cornelius Weygandt
The place where Synge and I used to sit has now been improved away.

John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes |John Masefield
Synge was an extraordinary man of genius, but he was not an extraordinarily great man of genius.

Old and New Masters |Robert Lynd
One is reminded of a similar case to his, that of the Irish dramatist, Synge.

Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art |John Gould Fletcher

Synge has no resentment against that truth, only interest in it as a fact that is true of people as he sees them.

Irish Plays and Playwrights |Cornelius Weygandt

British Dictionary definitions for synge

Synge

/ (sɪŋ) /

noun

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

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